Geir Lundestadt, the former secretary to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, has acknowledged that the awarding of that prize to Barack Obama in 2009 was a “mistake,” in that the award “didn’t achieve what [the committee] had hoped for.” I don’t understand Lundestadt’s reasoning. Obama achieved what he was selected to achieve when, on January 20th 2009, he became the first black president of the United States. That the Nobel Peace Prize has lacked any consistency in the promotion of peace and opposition to war is confirmed in such prior laureates as Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Cordell Hull (along with … Continue reading Peace Prize Regrets?