Ndakapererwa pandakanzwa Barack Obama achipihwa mubairo weNobel werunyararo. Kuvhunduka, chaizvo, kufunga kuti mutungamiri anotakura hondo mbiri aizopihwa mubairo werunyararo. Kutozosvikira ndayeuka kuti Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, uye Henry Kissinger vose vakanga vagamuchira mibairo yorugare yeNobel. Dare reNobel rine mukurumbira nekuda kwefungidziro dzaro dzepamusoro, dzinokundwa nekutaura uye nezviito zvisina maturo, uye kufuratira kutyorwa kuri pachena kwerunyararo rwenyika.
Hongu, Wilson anowana chikwereti cheChinzwano cheMarudzi - iyo muviri usingaite wakaita chero chinhu kudzivirira hondo. Asi akange abhomba mahombekombe eMexico, akatumira mauto kuti atore Haiti neDominican Republic uye akaunza US muuranda hweEurope muHondo Yenyika yekutanga, chokwadi pakati pehondo dzehupenzi uye dzinouraya pamusoro pechinyorwa.
Chokwadi, Theodore Roosevelt akaputsa runyararo pakati peJapan neRussia. Asi aifarira zvehondo, akatora chikamu mukukunda kweUS Cuba, achinyepedzera kuisunungura kubva kuSpain uku achisunga cheni dzeUS pachitsuwa chidiki ichi. Uye semutungamiri akatungamirira hondo yakaipisisa kuti akunde maPhilippines, achitokorokotedza mukuru wemauto eUnited States akanga achangobva kuuraya vagari vomumusha mazana matanhatu vasingagoni kubatsira muPhillipines. Dare harina kupa mubairo weNobel kuna Mark Twain, uyo akashora Roosevelt uye akatsoropodza hondo, kana kuna William James, mutungamiri weanti-imperialist ligi.
Hongu, komiti yakaona zvakakodzera kuti ipe mubairo werunyararo kuna Henry Kissinger, nekuti akasaina chibvumirano chekupedzisira cherunyararo chinopedza hondo yeVietnam, yaakange ari mumwe wevakavaka. Kissinger, uyo akanyatsoenda pamwe nekuwedzera kwehondo kwaNixon, nekubhomba kwemisha yevarombo muVietnam, Laos neCambodia. Kissinger, anofananidza tsananguro yegororo rehondo nemazvo, anopihwa mubairo werunyararo!
Vanhu vanofanirwa kupihwa mubairo werunyararo kwete pahwaro hwezvipikirwa zvavakaita - saObama, mugadziri wezvivimbiso ane hunyanzvi - asi pahwaro hwezvaitwa zvekupedza hondo, uye VaObama vakaramba vachiuraya, kuita zvechiuto muIraq, Afghanistan nePakistan.
Dare rerunyararo reNobel rinofanirwa kuenda pamudyandigere, uye kuendesa mari yaro yakakura kune rimwe sangano rerunyararo repasi rose iro risingashamisike nehunyanzvi uye kutaura, uye rine kumwe kunzwisisa kwenhoroondo.
Howard Zinn ndiye munyori we "Nhoroondo Yevanhu yeUnited States," "Voices of a People's History" (naAnthony Arnove), uye "A Power Governments Haagone Kudzvinyirira."
Kwayaka: Guardian