Krauthammer, can a Nobel Peace Prize winner send more troops to Afghanistan?
Sure, I don’t see why not. The prize could have two contrary effects. It could give him an incentive to send more troops to show his own people that he is not an instrument of five Norwegian leftists. Or it can work the other way where in order not to lose the popularity he obviously feels from Europe, he would be less inclined. I think whatever impulses come out of those considerations neutralize each other. The prize will have zero effect on his decision. Part 2: “What the Obama administration pretends is realism is naïve nonsense” You have called him a “young Hamlet” over his hesitation about making a decision on Afghanistan. However, he’s just carefully considering the options after Bush shot so often from the hip. No. The strategy he’s revising is not the Bush strategy, it’s the Obama strategy. On March 27, he stood there with a background of flags, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on one side and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on the other, and said: “Today, I’m announcing a
