Claudia Rosett has some wonderful thoughts on the current Peace Prize winner:
Portents of the EU Nobel Peace Prize…
Commentators have been struggling to make sense of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, which went to the quarreling, rioting, and crisis-ridden multilateral morass that is the European Union. The Nobel commendation praised the EU “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe.”
Among the saner responses to this was a column by former State Department adviser Christian Whiton, who asked “Is this a joke?” And, with a degree of lucidity that routinely eludes the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, speaking on Fox News (about 5 minutes into this clip), noted that if Europe has had peace “It’s not because of the European Union. It’s because of American power,” which, he pointed out, has sheltered Europeans for decades, and given them a chance to work out their differences.
She then lists a couple of the more egregious Peace Prize winners. Why do they even bother. The “thinking” Nobel's are really worth something — they choose good people. They are awarded by Sweden.
The Peace Prize is awarded by Norway — they could stop and nobody would really notice…