The Washington Post, even after a shake-up by owner Jeff Bezos, is anything but a publication friendly to Republicans or the Trump administration. But even representatives of legacy media sometimes have to admit the obvious.
One of them is Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post, who wrote an op-ed on Thursday making the case for awarding President Trump the Nobel Peace Prize. This is not a new idea; this idea has already been toyed with. But the calls seem to be getting louder.
Not only does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, there may never have been an American president who deserved it more.
Four of his predecessors received this award. Barack Obama won seven months of his presidency, essentially, for not being George Bush – and even he said he didn't deserve it. Woodrow Wilson won for the creation of the League of Nations, which turned out to be a futile disaster that the United States did not even join. Theodore Roosevelt won for ending a single conflict, the Russo-Japanese War, which began with Japan's 1904 attack on the Russian fleet in Manchuria (Japan would later launch a full invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and then a surprise attack on the United States in 1941). Jimmy Carter won in 2002.more than two decades after leaving the White House, a lifetime of peacekeeping dating back to the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt.
Yes, Barack Obama won the Nobel Prize for existence, which was a pretty obvious pandering. Probably the only president who actually received the Peace Prize for actually working for peace was Theodore Roosevelt, who negotiated the end of the Russo-Japanese War.
In contrast, Mr. Thiessen notes President Trump's achievements in the following areas:
Compare this to Trump's record. In his first term, Trump promoted not one, not twoNo threeBut four Arab-Israeli peace agreements — the first such agreements in more than a quarter of a century. He did this by rejecting the flawed conventional wisdom of the foreign policy establishment, which argued that there could be no separate peace without the Palestinians and that moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and resisting Iranian aggression would inflame the region and put peace out of reach. These steps backfired. The Abraham Accords alone were an achievement worthy of a Nobel Prize.
And of course, the Peace Prize hasn't meant much since it was awarded to Yasser Arafat. But it might at least redeem him to some extent.
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It is now unlikely that President Trump's name will ring a bell in Oslo. And frankly, it's unlikely that the president will be too disappointed or surprised if Oslo refuses to give him the honor he so clearly deserves. Nobel or no Nobel, the president did what he did. He was not involved in the negotiations of the aforementioned Arab-Israeli peace accords, but he also promoted peace agreements between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, between Thailand and Cambodia, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and may well have prevented a war between the two nuclear powers, India and Pakistan.
While not strictly speaking a peaceful action, the President's destruction of Iran's nuclear capabilities can also only be viewed as a net positive for world peace.
The Nobel committee may still find it wise to ignore all this. But President Trump achieved all of this nonetheless. He may not be a Nobel laureate, but that doesn't make him any less president of the world.
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