Mientras su úlitmo documental, "Capitalismo, una historia de amor", encara su tercera semana en los cines norteamericanos con éxito relativo, Michael Moore, verborreico y megalómano, ha decidido volver a ser noticia al publicar dos artículos en los que analiza o, mejor dicho, crítica y luego se desdice. Su objetivo: el Premio Nobel de la Paz a Barack Obama. En un medio razonablemente conservador como The Huffington Post, Moore ha publicado dos cartas en las que denuncia la política de Obama en la Guerra de Afganistán y el aumento de contingentes, la Guerra de Irak y la ausencia de soluciones y las crisis entre India y Pakistán, Irán e Irak, Corea del Norte y Corea del Sur. Conflictos mundiales que utiliza Moore para comentarle a su Presidente: "Enhorabuena Sr. Obama, ya tiene el premio, ahora gáneselo".

"Dear President Obama,

How outstanding that you´ve been recognized today as a man of peace. Your swift, early pronouncements -- you will close Guantanamo, you will bring the troops home from Iraq, you want a nuclear weapon-free world, you admitted to the Iranians that we overthrew their democratically-elected president in 1953, you made that great speech to the Islamic world in Cairo, you´ve eliminated that useless term "The War on Terror," you´ve put an end to torture -- these have all made us and the rest of the world feel a bit more safe considering the disaster of the past eight years. In eight months you have done an about face and taken this country in a much more sane direction.

But...

The irony that you have been awarded this prize on the 2nd day of the ninth year of what is quickly becoming your War in Afghanistan is not lost on anyone. You are truly at a crossroads now. You can listen to the generals and expand the war (only to result in a far-too-predictable defeat) or you can declare Bush´s Wars over, and bring all the troops home. Now. That´s what a true man of peace would do.

There is nothing wrong with you doing what the last guy failed to do -- capture the man or men responsible for the mass murder of 3,000 people on 9/11. But you cannot do that with tanks and troops. You are pursuing a criminal, not an army. You do not use a stick of dynamite to get rid of a mouse.

The Taliban is another matter. That is a problem for the people of Afghanistan to resolve -- just as we did in 1776, the French did in 1789, the Cubans did in 1959, the Nicaraguans did in 1979 and the people of East Berlin did in 1989. One thing is certain through all revolutions by people who wish to be free -- they ultimately have to bring about that freedom themselves. Others can be supportive, but freedom can not be delivered from the front seat of someone else´s Humvee.

You have to end our involvement in Afghanistan now. If you don´t, you´ll have no choice but to return the prize to Oslo.

Yours,
Michael Moore
"

Aquí está la carta que publicó Moore un día después en la que moderaba sus palabras.