Paulina Neuding - 11 oktober, 2009

Så kan man faktiskt förändra världen

Humor, även ofrivillig sådan, kan få politiska konsekvenser och i förlängningen förändra världen. Så kan man sammanfatta de mer försiktigt kritiska reaktionerna efter att den norska Nobelkommittén förärat Barack Obama Nobels fredspris. Exempelvis skriver DN:
 
Genom att belöna Obama med ett Nobelpris har den norska kommittén bidragit till att höja de redan orealistiska förväntningar som finns på USA:s president. Därmed har man gjort såväl honom som fredspriset en otjänst.
 
Norska Dagens næringsliv skriver:
 
Problemet med årets pris er at den kan undergrave autoriteten både til dem som gir og han som mottar prisen.
 
Skadan hade kunnat göras ogjord, konstaterade libertarianska Reason magazines Nick Gillespie före Obamas tal i Vita husets rosenträdgård i fredags: 
 

Congrats to President Barack Obama on being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, which everyone in the world, with the exception of the committee that decides the award, basically agrees is undeserved. (…) He should pull a Le Duc Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator who declined a joint prize with Henry Kissinger for the simple reason that "his country was still not at peace." That would not only honor the spirit of the prize, but make it easier for Obama to actually work toward peace. 

I Wall Street Journal konstaterar Peggy Noonan under rubriken A Wicked and Ignorant Award:

In one mindless stroke, the committee has rendered the Nobel Peace Prize a laughingstock, perhaps for as long as a generation. And that is an act of true destruction, because it was actually good that the world had a prestigious award for peacemaking. The members of the committee have also put the young American president in a terrible place. They make it look like all the talk of "The One," the heartthrob of the European elite, the darling of the international left, is true. They make him look prefabricated and inauthentic, an empty structure held up by essentially silly people. Which puts him at a disadvantage in his own country, because Americans don't really like it when flaky European politicians tell them how they ought to see him or the world. 
 
Hon lanserar det radikala förslaget att Obama under sitt tacktal i Oslo ska överraska sina otvetydigt antiamerikanska norska värdar med att – hylla idén om Amerika:
 

How to redeem this? That is a hard question, but here is one idea. The president will deliver a big speech in Oslo Dec. 10: white tie and tails, a formal, bound statement. The world, as they say, will be watching. He should deflect the limelight. (Can he?) He should make his subject bigger than himself. (Is there a subject bigger than himself?) He has been accused of traveling through the world on an extended apology tour. That isn't fair, but the tag is there. How about an unapologetic address, a speech, with the world's elites leaning forward and listening, about the meaning of America? A speech that shows a grounded and sophisticated love for his country and its great traditions and history. Not a nationalistic speech, not a prideful one, but a loving one.

 
Mer i facket avsiktlig humor som kan förändra världen: Aron Flam och Jonatan Unge åker till Aftonbladet för att lämna tillbaka något som de, typiskt nog, har stulit från palestinska barn. Åh vad jag önskar att fler hade deras inställning.

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