A Nobel Peace Prize Obama’s “World Peace Vision”

9 months of being in office as President of the United States were enough to grant Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize even though all he has presented is words and promises as the world has not seen any U.S. action towards real peace.

Maybe this is an attempt of the Nobel jury to restrain Obama from changing his vision of the world as a place for peace and understanding; maybe it is an indirect means of obliging him to keep his promises as he has declared earlier of bringing peace to the Middle East and other regions of conflict.

But questions are raised whether Obama really deserves a Nobel Peace Prize at the time the U.S occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan is ongoing... not only that but also as he looks into intensifying military action in Afghanistan...or as his government has doubts and uncertainty when it comes to meeting the deadline of shutting down the Guantanamo "Torture" cave?

Hours after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, US President Barack Obama has convened his war council for talks on the Afghan War.

The Friday meeting, attended by top US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and in presence of US ambassadors to Islamabad and Kabul, was the fourth of its kind the president has called in an attempt to rescue the unpopular war.

Earlier, McChrystal had warned that the deteriorating Afghan mission could fail within a year without more US troops.

The general had asked the president for up to 60,000 extra soldiers, which is more than the 40,000 initially requested.

Following intensifying pressures from the country's top military brass, Obama assured his generals that in reviewing his Afghan strategy, he would not consider pulling out or cutting troop levels.

This is when, only this winter, Obama had approved 21,000 more troops for Afghanistan, which would raise the total number of US forces there to 68,000 by the end of the year.

Ironically, one day before Obama became the third sitting American president to win the lucrative peace prize, US Congress ratified a massive 680-billion-dollar bill for the wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Despite the already heavy presence of coalition forces for more than eight years,
insurgency has been skyrocketing in southern and eastern Afghanistan,.

The US and its allies invaded Afghanistan in 2001 to allegedly eradicate insurgency and arrest its leaders. The first military power in the world, however, says it has been unable to arrest or kill any of the main militant leaders including Al-Qaeda's Osama Bin Laden and Taliban's Mullah Omar.

Afghans have been the main victims of the tide of violence. More than 1,500 civilians have been killed and many others wounded only in the first six months of 2009, which shows a 24 percent increase compared with the same period last year, according to the latest UN report.