Noble Reagan—Nobel Carter

Mr. Reagan, You Are America's Prize

Published 10/14/2002

no-ble adj. 1] having or showing high moral qualities or ideals, or greatness of character 2] grand; stately; splendid; magnificent [e.g. Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States]

Nobel Peace Prize n. annual international prize given by the Nobel Foundation for promoting peace, e.g., the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, mass murderer of thousands and designer of death and destruction upon the nation of Israel.

It is often difficult to handicap any upcoming Nobel Peace Prize. One year you have a thug and mass murderer as an award recipient, and in another year it is a tossup between a peacenik here and a radical socialist there.

In 1981, the award went to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, another warm and fuzzy award to a warm and fuzzy effort, in vain, to stop the spread of thug dictators flaunting their human rights abuse throughout the world. I would have awarded the 1981 Nobel Peace Prize to those gallant F-16 fighter pilots from Israel who found a way to destroy the Osirak nuclear reactor near Baghdad on June 7, 1981. These pilots did more to keep the peace (relative peace) in the Middle-East for two decades than any UN refugee worker could even dream about.

The 1979 award to Mother Teresa stumps me. Yes, Mother Teresa will become a Saint and she did great work. She may have been a good nurse and worked 24/7, but did she promote world peace? Mother Teresa was known for cornering prominent people and forcing them to commit to various programs or she just would not let them go. Just imagine what advance in world peace she could have made if, instead of holding a cold towel on a leper 24 hours a day, she spent her time cornering the Saddam Husseins, the Kim Jon IIs, and the Usama bin Ladens of the world and not letting them go until she received a commitment from them to act like human beings.

Why didn't Mother Teresa devote her career to getting these thug nations to treat women like women?

Perhaps a better recipient for 1979 would have been CVN(69), the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. Now there is a real keeper of the peace.

When you look at past recipients of the award, you know that the Nobel Foundation is just another typical far left socialist group. That much was known, even before Oct. 12, 2002 when they made the anti-Bush/anti-American comments while tossing the "Oscar" to the peanut farmer from Georgia.

In 1997, the award went to Jody Williams, the founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. Five years later, how many land mines are on the India/Pakistan border? What about in Afghanistan? Did Jody Williams really promote world peace?

With thugs like Hussein, Castro, and Jon, why doesn't Jody spend her time promoting the banning of lame minds rather than land mines?

In 2001, the award went to the United Nations and Kofi Annan. I guess the UN did a great job in promoting 19 young Islamic mass murderers to display their form of "world peace" that year.

Do you have one of those goofy "employee of the month" awards at your office? You know, the "what did this person do any different this month than last month versus SusieQ" award? Did you ever wonder if it would just be easier to throw the dice and pick the employee of the month that way rather than asking you to vote for some office workers, many who you don't even know? It seems the Committee's criteria for choosing the Nobel Peace Prize recipient in most years is quite twisted. Maybe there is a requirement that all Nobel Committee members must have been voted "employee of the month" at one time in their office pool and are familiar with handing out awards (or receiving them) that are chosen in a baseless fashion.

Do you ever wonder if the Nobel Foundation has some good dart throwers, craps players, or some who are just adept at a random drawing of various radical socialist names out of a black hat?

The Belated 1985 "Noble" Peace Prize

Sentry Over America's "Noble Foundation" hereby presents to you, Pershing II, the 1985 Noble Peace Prize for playing a major role in ending the Cold War. You have ended the generational fear of nuclear holocaust through your efforts of peace through strength. We bestow upon you, Pershing II, a belated 1985 Noble Peace Prize.

There were two watershed events in 1985 that helped play a major role in ending the Cold War. The first was on December 13, 1985, when the Pershing II IRBM successfully achieved full operational capability in Europe. President Reagan had to use every bit of his diplomatic persuasion ability, in a difficult peacenik environment in Europe, to get these nations to accept the Pershing IIs.

The Russians were able to counter many moves by the American military, but the Pershing II broke the back of the Russian will, as they knew they could not keep up with the technological development and the economic might to produce and maintain a counter-force to this highly accurate and potent IRBM. For this, Pershing II, you are awarded the belated 1985 Noble Peace Prize.

The second event in 1985 was Ronald Reagan's Second Inaugural Address.

There is only one way safely and legitimately to reduce the cost of national security, and that is to reduce the need for it. And this we are trying to do in negotiations with the soviet Union. We are not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons. We seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth.

Now, for decades, we and the soviets have lived under the threat of mutual assured destruction; if either resorted to the use of nuclear weapons, the other could retaliate and destroy the one who had started it. Is there either logic or morality in believing that if one side threatens to kill tens of millions of our people, our only recourse is to threaten killing tens of millions of theirs?

I have approved a research program to find, if we can, a security shield that would destroy nuclear missiles before they reach their target. It wouldn't kill people, it would destroy weapons. It wouldn't militarize space, it would help demilitarize the arsenals of Earth. It would render nuclear weapons obsolete. We will meet with the soviets, hoping that we can agree on a way to rid the world of the threat of nuclear destruction.—President Ronald Reagan, January 21, 1985

The "Star Wars Program" buried what the Pershing II had killed—the Soviet Empire's ability to keep pace with the military industrial might of the United States. We had to have a leader with courage and leadership to execute the strategy of peace through strength. President Reagan was the man.

Andrew Bernstein, Ph.D, is a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute. Here is a comment from Mr. Bernstein that also questions the Nobel Committee's interpretation of how best to achieve peace:

Although Carter's efforts to convince Egypt to recognize Israel's right to exist was a genuine achievement, he has otherwise continuously betrayed the principles on which peace depend. For many years Carter, espousing collectivist ideals, has traipsed the globe treating aggressor and victim with equal respect. For example, he aided the nuclear program of North Korea, the most repressive dictatorship on earth and part of the axis of evil. Carter's trip last May to Cuba, where he sanctioned and supported the dictator Castro, is just more recent evidence that he understands nothing of rights and peace. In choosing Carter the Nobel Committee has shown yet again that it does not understand the cause of war and so of peace.—Andrew Bernstein

"In choosing Carter the Nobel Committee has shown yet again that it does not understand the cause of war and so of peace."

And now,

without further ado,

Sentry Over America's Noble Peace Prize Committee

announces the year 2002 recipient of this year's award . . .

For your untiring efforts in promoting world peace through strength, for your brilliant diplomacy with your allies in Europe over the Pershing II issue, for your magnificent leadership in reviving a trashed military from your predecessor Jimmy Carter, for your outstanding strategy in reclaiming an economic juggernaut that helped win the Cold War, for your courageous backing of the "Star Wars Program" that played such a major role in killing off the Soviet Empire, for your no-nonsense tactical skill in dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev, for all these efforts and more that helped bring peace and maintain peace . . .

and for practically tearing down the Berlin Wall with your own bare hands,

the Sentry Over America Noble Peace Prize Committee awards the year 2002 prize to

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Mr. Reagan, you are America's prize.

Thank you, Mr. President.

Copyright © 2002 Sentry Over America