Headline of the Day
I don't question the timing.
AP (“Pakistan condemns Trump for bombing Iran a day after recommending him for a Nobel Peace Prize“):
Pakistan condemned U.S. President Donald Trump for bombing Iran, less than 24 hours after saying he deserved a Nobel Peace Prize for defusing a recent crisis with India.
Relations between the two South Asian countries plummeted after a massacre of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir in April. The nuclear-armed rivals stepped closer to war in the weeks that followed, attacking each other until intense diplomatic efforts, led by the U.S., resulted in a truce for which Trump took credit.
It was this “decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership” that Pakistan praised in an effusive message Saturday night on the X platform when it announced its formal recommendation for him to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
Less than 24 hours later, however, it condemned the U.S. for attacking Iran, saying the strikes “constituted a serious violation of international law” and the statute of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a phone call Sunday with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, expressed his concern that the bombings had targeted facilities that were under the safeguards of the IAEA. Pakistan has close ties with Iran and supports its attacks on Israel, saying it has the right to self-defense.
My strong hunch is that Trump will not win the Nobel Peace Prize. Certainly not this year.
The guy is the frikken president of the United States, but Barack Obama still lives rent-free in his head.
Imagine being that insecure. It boggles the mind.
As Seneca said: “All cruelty springs from weakness”
Warrior, Nobel Peace Prize winner, merchandising wizard, author, entertainer, orator, statesman, steaks-man, stakes-man, deal maker, deal breaker, negotiator extraordinaire, scratch golfer, stable genius, technology savant, natty dresser. A man for all seasons, and reasons.
The country and the world are paying for this guy’s psychosis. The tariffs, deportations, and now the “spectacularly successful” bombing will all have negative economic effects that the stable genius hasn’t considered. The Nobel prize is his Moby Dick. Two mental health professionals – psychologist Mary Trump and psychiatrist Bandy Lee – have sounded the alarm for years now, only to be ignored by the legacy media.
If Henry Kissinger can win the Nobel peace prize how can anyone be excluded?
@gVOR10:
Your point is well taken. HK’s Nobel was based on his role in normalizing relations with China and the early nuclear treaties with Russia. Those were significant achievements, but one needs blinders to excuse his excesses. So if the felon were to achieve a major FP success promoting peace, by the HK standard he should receive it, despite the other failures that have riven his administrations.
At the time and now, I believe that Obama’s Nobel was a mistake based on hopium by the committee.
@Rob1:
Taco
Ok, so Pakistan is no longer a fan. But, what about DR Congo, Rwanda, India, Serbia, Kosovo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and the Abraham Accords? You know, all the other peace making he never seems to get credit for.
I say, we give him the prize. Then, when he shows up in Oslo to receive it, he can be arrested for violating international law under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter. He can polish his trophy in his prison cell.
@gVOR10: Solid point!
@gVOR10:
When Nixon became President, there were over 500,000 troops in Vietnam. Four years later we signe ed a treaty to end the war. Nixon was still President and Kissinger his NSA.
The peace treaty didn’t work for complicated reasons. It was probably doomed to fail from the start but a Democratic Congress cutting aid by over 50% was definitely no help.
@Bill Jempty: In his 1968 campaign Nixon said he had a secret plan to end the war. Whatever his plan for the war might have been, what happened is he waited until he was a lame duck and then he quit.
This should be taken as an example of personal ambition and domestic politics driving war far more than we like to admit.
Pakistan: “Can we haz backsies?
I suspect Islamabad will be quietly rather pleased if the US operation cripples Iran.
But they are also going to be very worried about a possible Straits of Hormuz crisis effect on oil supply and price.
Wut?
Is the AP smoking crack?
Pakistan’s key relations are with China, Saudi Arabia, and the US.
In roughly that order.
It’s a generally known, if seldom acknowledged, reality that the Saudi’s part financed Pakistan’s nuclear programme, in return for dibs on some warheads.
Which are generally thought to be designed to mate to the Saudi stock of Chinese supplied DF-3 ballistic missiles, which are of sod all use for non-nuclear purposes.
I wonder if Qatar wants their plane back?
@Just Another Ex-Republican:
Qatar you are talking about? 😉
I hope this soon ends, peacefully.
However, if it does not, a few Iranian misilles aimed at Dubai would amuse me somewhat.
Being the vindictive arsehole that I am.
(Various Right Brits have moved there. And from there continue to attack UK policy on migration, defence, etc)