Michael Ledeen on Obama’s Nobel Prize

By David Weigel 10/9/09 9:52 AM

I emailed Michael Ledeen, the neoconservative scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for comment on President Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. His response:

The Nobel Committee is following its well-known proclivity of awarding the Peace Prize to people who make war more likely. Remember Jimmy Carter and Yasser Arafat?

texasaggie

I seem to remember that this same Ledeen (are there more of them?) was involved in preparing the forged letter that claimed that Hussein had imported tons of yellowcake from Niger. Are his thoughts actually of any consequence?

Pug

Michael Ledeen has the credibility of Bill Kristol. Zero.

William Ockham

Really, Michael Ledeen? You asked Ledeen? Granted, you can count on him to say something really stupid, but you should be ashamed of yourself for taking that idiot seriously.

strangely_enough

Shouldn't Ledeen be out ginning up a new war so someone else can win the Nobel for stopping/preventing it?
Oddly, the Nobel Committee's "well-known proclivity of awarding the Peace Prize to people who make war more likely," somehow missed Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ledeen himself.

bimplebean

What a dick. Carter brokered peace between Israel and Egypt. Anyone see them go to war lately? Of course not. Ledeen has it all wrong.

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