Why was a terrorist like Arafat given the Nobel Peace Prize, yet Ronald Reagan, who stopped the Cold War?

Question

without firing one shot denied it, if it is so great an honor? I think the board of the Nobel are a bunch of liberals who must only honor their own.

Answer 1

The prize means less today after giving it to a liar who doesn't do what he asks others to do. The Nobel committee decided that sincerity means little.

Answer 2

I think one man has a hero and another man sees him as a terrorist. Seldom is truth ever given a prize nor does it seek a prize. I think it is a shock when the good are recognition at all in this world let alone get a Nobel Peace Prize. I think Reagan did much good and the walls falling down perhaps changed the world more than anyone in the last 1000 years, if he did any more he be on a cross. They did try to shoot him and God found it in his heart to spear us the pain and him to be remember as a great president.

We seem only to remember those taken from us too soon not the ones who live among us and die old. However I do believe Reagan will get his prize as do all good men.

Answer 3

Ronald Reagan didn't stop the cold war, he sustained it and maintained it. The worst thing that could have happened to his political career would have been the fall of the Public Enemy no.1 URSS. Just look at what it did to Bush Senior.
What's wrong with being liberals? You seem to be using it as an offense. Try to google the history of liberalism and see if u can learn something.

Looking back, I am not saying Arafat should have received it. It was a political move (remember Arafat got the Prize together with the Israeli Prime Minister). At that moment though, the end of the Palestinian - Israeli war was the best thing that could have happened. It was the longest war and the most bloody in recent history, to that point. Who could have guessed that the war will re-kindle so fast after.

Answer 4

"006" must be the soul mate of "l33tnimda", who epitomizes Liberal "thinking". Instead of praising Reagan for standing tough with the Russians and forcing them to concede defeat in the Cold War, dismantle their empire, and set free their satellite countries in Eastern Europe, he once wrote this about Reagan instead:

"He kept the Cold War going and preserved the Us Vs. Them mentality that is even stronger today. I am sure the Cold War would still be going if Gorbachev had not thrown in the towel."

Is that hilarious or what? As Margaret Thatcher observed, Reagan "won the Cold War without firing a shot", but "l33tnimda", admits that Reagan's efforts ended the Cold War, but gives the credit to Gorbachev. Absolutely astounding. Reagan out-negotiated the befuddled Russian leader, but this guy gives credit to the loser. Unreal.

It would be like going to a Chicago Bulls Basketball game where the home team wins. However, instead of cheering for the victorious Bulls, the crowd gleefully swarms the losing team, heaping endless praise on them for not playing quite well enough to prevail against the Bulls.

So why give a slimebag terrorist like Arafat the Nobel Peace Prize? I think it's because the lilly-livered, foo-foo Liberal nutcases can't even distinguish between good and evil.

Giving a Nobel Peace Prize to Arafat or Gorbachev instead of Reagan is like awarding a medal to an arsonist whose elbow got too sore from spreading gasoline to make properly set the building ablaze, instead of the brave policeman who stopped the arsonist in his tracks.

Answer 5

well...

I was in college while Reagan was president, and I kinda recall he was more then happy to engage in armed conflicts. Just not with anyone his own size. Sort of like a bully that way I guess.

Seriously though, I think the prize is given usually to someone other then a US President, because any US Presidemt would *always* be eligible for the prize inder some criteria.

I don't know, but maybe the prize could be given posthumously, if history deems Reagan's role as more critical then those of the particular poilticians who managed USSR's breakup day to day, such as Gorbachav and Yeltsin among others.

After all, with Putin aiming to re-start the cold War and remove democracy from Russia, the "win" of Reagan is still not etched in stone.

Now that I think about it, had Reagan actually got those guys to sign a treaty with the rest of the world, as Carter did with Arafat an (was it?) Begin, it would have been a no-brainer.

But, he didn't do that, and so there is no way to point to his actual achievement in any objective fashion like that.

That of course is nt the only criteria - I have only seen headlines today yet, but I suppose Gore is awarded for raising awareness worldwide as opposed to any specific accomplishment, but even that is probably focused around a treaty for better or worse.

So maybe Reagan's mistake was not "getting it in writing".

I am guessing he went to his grave not really worried about it.

Answer 6

WOWZIE! It is just amazing to me that all of you are saying yay yay to GORE, and yet just at the same time you are IGNORING that he is LYING!!!!! What HYPOCRITS you all are.!!!

There is no such a thing as his evil term Global Warming? that he attemptemted to think up to try to get into office! It simply doesn't exist !!
It is colder now than it ever HAS been. We have had record COLD temperatures...Think BUFFALO, think Chicago think Cincinnati last year, huh???? Last year, Kentucky children had over 30 snow days........
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Answer 7

I still remembered well that Jimmy Carter standed along with Arafat and declared PEACE then.... What a Joke.

Answer 8

Amazing how many libs criticize Reagan's efforts while simultaneously admitting they worked.

It is with GREAT hypocrisy that those same individuals applaud Gore's efforts to bring attention to polluting our environment, but just as easily ignore his tactics - lies, lies, lies !!!

Notice how I did not used the term Global Warming? Because it doesn't exist !!

Answer 9

Arafat won one third of the prize that year for his role in the "Oslow Accords"...

It was Gorbachev and the East Europeans had a far bigger roll in "ending the Cold War" than Reagan did.

Answer 10

Ronald Reagan did *NOT* stop the cold war.

Go look up Stanislov Petrov. Reagan almost got us all killed.

If you think he ended up ending the cold war by "Staying Strong", recall that EVERY PRESIDENT BEFORE HIM since World War II did the same.

Reagan could sell snow to an eskimo, but he crippled us with national debt and added fuel to the fire in the Middle East as well as devastating Nicaragua.

President Reagan was a bad President. THAT'S why he got no prize.

Arafat's prize was not for his entire life but for some very specific actions. This is true of Nelson Mandela as well. (Mendela was no saint, but he sure cleans up nice)