‹ May the farce be with you, Mr. President •
The eyebrow-raising decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize calls for not just the well-deserved ridicule it has received, but also for a discussion about what the decision says about the various participants. This article gives an insight into the Committee’s thinking and into the international elite’s preconceptions about Obama and about any American President who, like George W. Bush, would seek to press for American interests over what John Kerry referred to as the “global test.”
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