That Awkward Moment When One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs AnotherBy Dan Sanchez It was no use. The attackers already knew full well what their target was. Doctors Without Borders had long ago provided them with theGPS coordinates of their facilities. And the US-installed Afghan government, which hadraided that very same hospital in July of this year, had requested the strike, claiming the hospital was being used by insurgents. The attack killed 22 people, including 12 medical workers and 10 patients. Three of the patients were children. The first bombardment targeted the Intensive Care Unit, where an eyewitness nursesaid, Patients were burning in their beds. And a hospital caretakersaid that he could hear women and children, screaming for help inside the hospital while it was set ablaze by the bombing. Doctors Without Borders won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. President Obama was awarded his in 2009. As Commander-in-Chief of the military that bombed the Doctors Without Borders hospital, this makes Obama perhaps the first Nobel Peace Prize winner to bomb another Nobel Peace Prize winner. Or maybe not? Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973, and he masterminded the secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos for President Nixon around that time. Shortly thereafter, it came to light that in that campaign, hospitals were routinely targeted for bombing. As The Nation recentlyreported: A letter from former Army captain Rowan Malphurs said that in 1969 and 1970, he analyzed aerial photographs where B-52 bombs (the ones ordered by Kissinger) fell on Cambodia: I saw on several occasions where possible hospitals had been bombed. On another occasion I observed a red cross on a building that was partially destroyed by bombs. By then, the Red Cross had already been awarded itsthree Nobel Peace Prizes. Sorry, Obama, it looks like thats one historic first you cant claim. That old fox beat you to it. If it makes you feel any better, Kissinger seems to think your mass-murder record actually beats his. (I know this will warm your heart, since you oncebragged, Turns out Im really good at killing people.) When confronted about bombing Cambodia on a recent book tour, Kissingersaid in his own defense: I think we would find, if you study the conduct of guerrilla-type wars, that the Obama administration has hit more targets on a broader scale than the Nixon administration ever did. () And I bet if one did an honest account, there were fewer civilian casualties in Cambodia than there have been from American drone attacks. Whether that dubious claim is true or not, its the thought that counts. Consider it a compliment: a gold star from teacher. Or even an elder statesmans passing of the torch: from one peace-prize winning war criminal to another. This article (That Awkward Moment When One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Another) is free and open source. You have permission to republish this article under a Creative Commons license with attribution to Dan Sanchez andtheAntiMedia.org. Anti-Media Radio airs weeknights at 11pm Eastern/8pm Pacific. If you spot a typo, emailedits@theantimedia.org. Dan Sanchez began contributing to Anti-Media as an independent journalist in August of 2015. His topics of interest include anti-imperialism, economic education, libertarian philosophy, peaceful parenting, and police accountability. He currently resides in Auburn, Alabama. I would like to see I wish you were head of the DOJ. The Nobel Peace Prize has lost any meaning or respect much like Obama. Like how debt is now divided into good debt and bad debt perhaps we can divide Nobel Peace Prize winners into good winners and bad winners? Red Cross and MSF as good winners and Kissinger and Obama as bad winners? This gruesome, comedic anomaly just emphasises how truth always triumphs in the end (and this is the end, for sure.) Truth simply will not and cannot be forever denied, even by historys greatest liars, i.e., government actors and playwrights: dreamers of self-greatness. 