[gnusty_gnurc]

The Nobel Peace prize is a joke. Obama won it despite green-lighting the Afghanistan surge.

[ocschwar]

He won it BEFORE green lighting the Afghanistan surge.

[gnusty_gnurc]

Good point - the committee must be horrible at judging people. Obama had essentially no foreign policy accomplishments at the time that they awarded him, suggesting they gave it out simply as tacit disapproval of Bush.

[mehrdadn]

If the entire prize is a joke, it'd make sense if you could point to patterns rather than one anomaly.

[gnusty_gnurc]

Even more recently it’s likely that Aung San Suu Kyi will be held accountable for crimes against humanity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_controversies#Pe...