Posted on 01/07/2005 9:26:35 PM PST by Kitten Festival
Greedy hypocrites January 7th, 2005
The recent disparagement of American aid efforts to help tsunami victims as “stingy” by Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations, is merely the latest in a series of anti-American words and actions by Norway and Norwegians. While one might generously characterize some of these actions as merely the typical left-wing carping of self-styled “humanitarians,” or as the by-product of good intentions gone awry, a closer analysis reveals that a prime motivation of this disproportionate hostility might be based on that oldest of human failings: greed.
Recent history indicates that the Nobel Peace Prizes have become a prime forum for Committee members (many of them Norwegians) to use their undeserved pristine and neutral reputation to engage in problematic actions towards America and her allies. The Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee in 2002 chose to award that most anti-American of American Presidents Jimmy Carter that year’s prize. The Chairman of the Committee departed from long-time custom and addressed the worldwide community with attacks on American policy. Gunnar Berge stated that the award to Carter “should be interpreted as a kick in the leg to Bush’s belligerent foreign policy.” This was seconded by another Gunnar (Staalsett) who serves on the Committee, who added that the award “was intended as a condemnation of American policy”.
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ping! this is really good!
They hate it because America was based on reason.
The other countries are based on tribal warfare.
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