“a stunning surprise” hardly begins to encompass the enormity!… But the back and forth over endeavor vs. success has blinded us to the brilliance of the prize committee’s work…..

Update:(h/t Garrett Utley);

That seismic rumble, barely audible beneath the hubub always provoked when a 25-1 shot comes in, was the shifting of the geopolitical fabric under the forces of reaction.

This is like a game of Go, and the committee has just dropped a stone out there in the ozone that is going to pay dividends for Prez’s true objectives—to finesse the Generals back into their constitutionally mandated subordination, so that the law enfocement prolems of the Pashtuns can be turned over to *law enforcement, and taken out of the free-fire zone.

Prez, and the forces of peace, have five strategically adept allies, as we battle with the war machine.

If nothing else, the McChrystal gambit, as played, will encounter an impediment; just as he packs for Stockholm, (Ed.note: It’s OSLO, you idiot!) Prez will be considering how to respond to that scurvy, mutinous, insubordinate leaker’s request for more cannon fodder.

Next step—the logical imperative for a vigorous world government, and the migration upward of (quaint concept) national sovereignty.

*There are bad people, doing bad things. Someone has to stop them. Just not us vigilante/gangbangers.