Despair not. Laugh, yes, but despair? No.

The Nobel Committee has confirmed what you and I have been saying all along, that the United States of America is the indispensable nation.

We've always known it, but to have a group of anti-American European elite, effete leftists confirm it should bring a smile to our faces as it brings looks of shock and dismay to the other Euros not involved in the decision.

From their perspective, the Nobel Committee is exactly correct, in that the mere whimsy of the President of the United States can create a world with less tension. Think of the implications of such a view.

Imagine the POTUS, reclining in a chair, at an angle, behind a desk with a microphone sitting on it. Every few moments, he turns toward the mic and, without looking at it, nose slightly in the air, with a negligent wave of the hand makes a simple pronouncement before turning back toward the side wall...

"We respect the United Nations..."

"We will take a seat at the UN Human Rights Council..."

"We believe climate change is a grave threat..."

"We have been at times derisive toward Europe..."

"We are sorry..."

"We will push for peace in the Middle East and put more pressure on Israel than the Arabs..."

"We will stimy French belligerence toward Iran..."

"We are sorry again..."

"We will take the part of Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro against Honduras..."

"We will re-configure missile defense in Eastern Europe..."

"We are still sorry..."

And on and on. Now, you and I can see that many of these things that place the concept if the international above our own national interest and experience actually pushes peace further away, but they don't see it that way. The Euros who voted for this thing worship in the halls of the international forum as a religious man enters a church. And like any church, it's the faith that matters. It's the ritual.

None of these things has born a lick of fruit one way or the other. There are no results, but it doesn't matter. Barack Obama, the indispensable man from the indispensable nation is reading from the hymnal, and that all that matters. Bingo, prize for him, sorrow and dismay from those anti-Americans who keep trying to tell themselves that America's place in the world is undeserved but who keep getting dragged back to reality by one thing or another.

And this time it was by the Nobel Peace Prize Committee! Perhaps the most unkindest cut of all.

Europe had an inferiority complex before George Bush, and it's still got one after George Bush, and this prize hasn't helped to heal THAT wound at all.

And don't worry about the prize itself. This award has done wonders to put before a wider audience what many of us have known for some time -- that the non-science prizes are a joke and a political gift, nothing more. Only now it's not just those of us on the right who know so! The others must necessarily have to either lose respect for the prize, or admit that the international order can't live without the United States. Brilliant!

So thank you Nobel Committee, and We're sorry about your #2 status.