"Good candidate for peace prize"

Excerpts from Canadian newspaper National Post on Obama's Nobel Prize award

"An Empty Honour"

"... Scandinavians apparently are still drinking his Kool-Aid.

"So who should have gotten the Nobel Peace Prize?

"Instead of droning on about 'hope' and a 'new international climate,' a group of people charged with awarding an annual peace prize might find it useful to focus on a more mundane and obvious inquiry. To wit: What part of the planet was beset by bloody war in 2008, but is now entirely at peace?

"The only nation that fits the bill is Sri Lanka. And the reason for that is the ruthless military campaign staged by President Mahinda Rajapaksa against the militarized death cult known as the Tigers. This conflict has taken 100,000 lives since it began three decades ago. But Rajapaksa ended it definitely at one stroke, ....Overnight, war became a stranger to Sri Lanka.

"Sounds like a pretty good candidate for a 'peace' prize, don't you think?

"..... every once in a while, as in Sri Lanka this year, they actually defeat the bad guys.

"They go home and turn on their televisions and watch men such as Obama get showered with praise for their pretty words."