America, Like A Ring In A Bell

U2's Bono says that President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize because of his promise (which we can be sure the dedicated citizen-rocker will do his best to make sure Obama keeps) to put the U.S. foreign policy establishment firmly behind the UN's Millennium Development Goals. Bono agrees with his pal the President's national security adviser, Gen. Jim Jones, who says, "Stability = Security + Development." Riffing in the New York Times this morning, Bono sounds a characteristically constructive note:

In dangerous, clangorous times, the idea of America rings like a bell (see King, M. L., Jr., and Dylan, Bob). It hits a high note and sustains it without wearing on your nerves. (If only we all could.) This was the melody line of the Marshall Plan and it’s resonating again. Why? Because the world sees that America might just hold the keys to solving the three greatest threats we face on this planet: extreme poverty, extreme ideology and extreme climate change. The world senses that America, with renewed global support, might be better placed to defeat this axis of extremism with a new model of foreign policy.

Hat tip to Maarja Krusten

Majority's Rules

Dennis Prager on the Nobel Peace Prize:

The Oslo committee's view is, tragically, true. Thanks to Barack Obama, America is for the first time is aligning its values with those of "the majority of the world's population." If you think the world's population has had better values than America, that it has made societies that are more open, free, and tolerant than American society, and that it has fought for others' liberty more than America has, you should be delighted.

The Post's Statement Is Now Inoperative

The Washington Post editorializes that the Nobel Peace Prize should've been awarded to Neda Agha-Soltan, who died in Iran while protesting the allegedly stolen election. Problem is that posthumous Nobels aren't allowed.

That's Just What They EXPECT Us To Do

Oops. "The Economist's" pre-announcement picks for the Nobel Peace Prize:

The favourite is Sima Samar, an Afghan human-rights activist [shown here], with Piedad Córdoba, a Colombian senator who has pushed for peace in her country, not far behind.

Obama Brings Home The Gold After All

The Nobel Peace Prize? Really?