Baby Doll in the NYT: Yes, Trump brokered peace, but he did it the wrong way, plus he pepper sprays
radical priests.
Conor thought this was a marvelous piece, BTW.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/opinion/trump-nobel-peace-prize.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.ZFIV.eB_OhmJH7s2o&smid=url-share
Replies to: Baby Doll in the NYT: Yes, Trump brokered peace, but he did it the wrong way, plus he pepper sprays
Did you know Dowd started at the NYT’s in the 80’s doing the social scene?
Poser.
A vapid article. She thinks feelings are more important than practicalities
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#3 in Connor’s spank bank and #1 in his heart
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"If Trump can untie the Gordian knot of the Middle East, it will be a spectacular feat — "
But we'll still be here to call him Hitler, incite political violence and unrest. Because that is our business model and it's what our readers pay for.
You left out what followed that sentence from Ms. Dowd...
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"...although it will have been accomplished by accommodating Bibi’s brutal annihilation and starvation of Gaza. And, of course, there’s probably some money in it for him and his family somewhere.
But the region is a graveyard of peace deals. As David Sanger wrote in The Times: “Much could go wrong in coming days, and in the Middle East it often does. The ‘peace’ deal Mr. Trump heralded on Truth Social on Wednesday evening may look more like another temporary pause in a war that started long before Israel’s founding in 1948, and has never ended.”
As Tom Friedman pointed out, it is Trump’s moral indifference to the human rights transgressions of his partners in the peace plan that allows him to break through old paradigms.
That is the same moral indifference that will prevent him from ever getting a Nobel. You can’t get a medal for promoting democracy when you tried to overthrow the democracy you were running.
He has shown utter disdain for our Constitution and the laws that have made us the greatest democracy in the world."
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Bibi and his Far Right One State (Israel) solution will see to it that there is no peace in Palestine...without concern for the people of Gaza, it will just lay the seeds for more unrest...even if Hamas is 'defeated'. Given that Trump is squarely behind Bibi, Trump will never see a Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama’s selection made this meaningless, why does he want this?
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