For
the past week or so I’ve seen a few post on Facebook and Twitter about people
wanting to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, basically for “his tough
stance forcing North Korea to the peace table.” There is a process for nominating people, but it’s not an online poll or anything like that, so no
Peacie McPeaceface. While some people
apparently support this before any peace deal has even been signed or gone into
effect (and I wonder how many of these same people criticized Obama’s award in
2009 by saying “He hasn’t done anything yet!”) many see it not as anything
dealing with Korea, just some way to legitimize Trump. And when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awards
the Peace Prize to someone else, some Trump supporters will use it as an excuse
to cry that it’s a socialist conspiracy to silence conservatives. As someone who was uneasy with Obama’s win in
2009 and looking back now I think he probably shouldn’t have won it, do I think
Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize?
Fuck no.
In
the past year or so, I’ve seen several articles and videos about North
Korea. One thing that almost all of them
say is that the point of North Korea’s nuclear program was to keep the
dictatorship alive. Basically, they were
using the millions of civilian and military lives in South Korea, Japan, and
even the US as human shields. “If you
try to remove us from power, millions will die.” But given reports that there
was a collapse at their test site, their nuclear program may have suffered a
major setback. So what kind of deterrent
could they use to stop a potential madman from starting a war to show the
Twitterverse how tough he is before the midterms? Declare peace, perhaps? Don’t get me wrong, I hope for peace on the
Korean peninsula, but doesn’t North Korea have a habit of making promises and
agreements, then waiting until the world is focused elsewhere before going back
to doing whatever they were doing? Yes,
North Korea says it’s stopping its nuclear and missile tests, but won’t this be
the fifth or sixth time they’ve said that?
If there is a peace – that lasts – then yes, someone should get the
Nobel Peace Prize. But I’d say that Moon
Jae-in and Kim Jong-un are probably more deserving of it that Trump.
