I have a dream... I have a hope...

It was not Obama to dream about it but someone that at age 35 was the youngest peace prize winner ever. Martin Luther King Jr., was a dreamer but he was not the President of the US because he would have never been able even running at the primaries of any of the two parties in the States. He won the Nobel Prize for his activism. He won it for acting towards making a dream come true and even after his assassination his dream has made possible that an Afro-American had become President of the most powerful nation in the world.

Obama has won the same prize King Jr got, and he won it based on "declarations". He is aiming to get a nuke-free world, he won it after a historical speech in Cairo and after he has proved not wanting to use the US power to enforce peace or rules.

While I do appreciate a lot these noble intentions, I think that assigning a prize on intentions is really a short-sighted vision.

What if Tehran doesn't co-operate and he will have to order an attack? Especially if Israel requires it? He never excluded this option, he never claimed to be a new Jesus: You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Matthew 5:43)...

All religions aim to love your enemy, all of them, from Jainism to Buddhism to Confucianism to Islam but, politics is not religion and the intentions are no actions.

While President Obama has declared that he is not sure to deserve the Prize, there are for sure, people, working towards peace and comfort the poorest people on earth that would have well deserved. There are No-Profit organisations that would have deserved this prize and the cash that comes with it, but, apparently, the Swedish/Norwegian Academy has decided to create a bit of a political case assigning the prize to a politician that until a few years ago was unknown to the world and in 10 months has changed the perception of America in the world, after a President that made the Americans ashamed of singing the national anthem, but that so far has done literally nothing to deserve a prize.

You might not know, but there was a committee proposing the Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, for the Peace Nobel Prize. Of course, I am sure that the Swedes (Norwegians) have not even taken into account his nomination but, if it is true what he claims he has done, he would have deserved it more than Obama...

205 nominees for the prize including Sarkozy and some other politicians and other Organisations, including the European Union, to choose from.

I hope that this can be a strong political message that the Academy has sent to Obama and not a recognition for what he claims he will do. If this is the case, I am happy that he won it but if I think of the past US presidents, from Reagan to Clinton, from Bush father to Bush son, there is no shade of doubt that sooner or later he will have to embrace the weapons and fight the "accidental" enemy of Western values and American interests. If this will not be the case, I am afraid to say, he will not be particularly loved by his own people and this, in America, means that he will be in serious danger as, differently from us Italians, when an American fanatic gets up in the morning and decides to kill someone, he has plenty of opportunities to do so.

I would like to close with something that has been puzzling me... Making a person, with such responsibility, even more exposed than he is can be counterproductive. Killing an idol gives popularity, those who killed JFK, John Lennon, attempted to Reagan and pope JP II's lives have become famous and idolised by other mentally disordered person. Isn't it stupid to assign such a prize and give the chance to some people to be mentioned in the history books?

While I confirm my doubts about the new Nobel Prize, I hope that he might continue doing what he pledged to do and that he could bring a period of peace to this planet. But I doubt that the Nobel Prize was a favour to him or to the world.

Good luck Mr. President and forget you got this prize and keep doing your job.