Written By : Donald Douglas

Well, it’s not taking long. It certainly didn’t escape the Nobel Commmittee that President Obama hasn’t actually achieved anything. So, what better way to facilitate further capitulation to the terrorists than by emoldening the Islamist/socialist alliance to bring pressure on the administration?

As Fox New reports, “John Bolton, a U.N. ambassador in the Bush administration, told FOX News that the award will give leverage to Obama advisers opposed to sending more troops Afghanistan at the request of commanders.”

And it’s giving leverage to the Islamist and socialist critics of the administration. The Taliban, for example, “Taliban Condemn Obama as Nobel Prize Winner“:

The Taliban Friday condemned the decision to award this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama, saying he has “not taken a single step towards peace in Afghanistan”.

“We have seen no change in his strategy for peace. He has done nothing for peace in Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told AFP.

“We condemn the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for Obama,” he said by telephone from an undisclosed location.

“When Obama was elected president, we were hopeful he would keep his promise to bring change. But he brought no change, he has continued the same old strategy as (President George W.) Bush.

“He reinforces the war in Afghanistan, he sent more troops to Afghanistan and is considering sending yet more. He has shed Afghan blood and he continues to bleed Afghans and to boost the war here,” he said.

Michael Moore joined the Taliban’s denunciation, “Congratulations President Obama on the Nobel Peace Prize – Now Please Earn it!.” And also, the hardline communist World Can’t Wait, “In the Nobel Peace Prize for War Makers Department.”

But get this: Firedoglake’s radical Spencer Ackerman even praises the Nobel Committee in Arabic! Insha’Allah — God-willing — the prize will enable Obama’s further prostration to the world’s terrorists:

There are 120,000 troops in Iraq — but by the summer of 2010 there will be 55,000; and by December 2011; practically none. There is a consideration of another Afghanistan escalation — but as part of a measure, if adopted, to bring stability and peace to a region whose volatility threatens millions. (Yes, this isn’t so convincing, even to me.) The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is heating up again — but Obama has taken risk after risk already to address it, and his bigger risks are yet to come. We probably won’t have a real climate bill in time for Copenhagen — but through no fault of Obama’s, and he’s working to mitigate its consequences. The U.S. still has the world’s biggest stockpile of nuclear weapons — but Obama never promised that he could yield nuclear disarmament overnight. Guantanamo Bay is in business — but not, insh’allah, for long. 

Progressives have a unique responsibility to hold Obama to his own stated vision, and the vision that the Nobel committee honored today. But there is a difference between an incomplete agenda and a counterproductive one. And in truth, the agenda is never complete. The work goes on. But we are on a path. Fired up, ready to go.

So, no it’s not the Republicans who have joined the Taliban, it’s the neo-communist left!

Image Credit: Bosch Fawstin, “oBOMBa: When Envy Goes Nuclear.”

Cross-posted from American Power.

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