The Nobel Prize for War 2009 goes to ...

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

Minister Jung --- "a pawn"??
 
(I always love it when people who haven't got the faintest idea about the
game think they have to use chess metaphors ...)
 
And no, it's NOT the Afghan people's choice. 
 

>
> On the airstrike, the people who resigned were only pawns who have
> been sacrificed. Nothing has changed the situation that we are part of
> a war that should be won before we can leave. We didn't start it, but
> we have to cope with it and therefor I think it's good that Obama is
> telling the Afghans that by 2011 they'd better be able to defend
> themselves or the Taliban will rule again some day. In the end it's
> their choice.
>