Strike The Root Blog

The left-leaning site Counterpunch.org has a piece on line commenting on the irony of Al Gore being awarded the Nobel “Peace Prize”:

“…Al Gore - as vice-president under Bill Clinton between 1993 and 2001 was never heard or seen as a peace-maker. Clinton-Gore had a crash program for building up US military facilities and made military allies all around Russia - and missed history’s greatest opportunity for a new world order.

“In contravention of international law and without a UN Security Council mandate, they bombed Serbia and Kosovo, based on an extremely deficient understanding of Yugoslavia and propaganda about genocide that has caused the miserable situation called Kosovo today (likely to blow up this year or the next), and they bombed in Afghanistan and Sudan.

“The Prize would have been linked to the environment if it has been awarded to someone who struggles against military or other violent influence on the global environment: military pollution, thousands of bases and exercises destroying nature, deliberate environmental warfare, militarization of space and the oceans, and - of course - nuclear weapons that, if used, would create more heat than global warming.”

Aside from the typical statist-left genuflecting to the UN Security Council, author Jan Oberg makes some excellent points.

Thanks to Tim Swanson for highlighting this piece at the Mises blog. Check out Swanson’s own commentary on militarism’s impact on the environment.

UPDATE: Be sure to also check out Per Bylund’s piece on the S-T-R homepage today on the hijacking of the Nobel Peace Prize.

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