If you do, I'd like to ask the Nobel Committee the following question:
What the f... were you guys thinking?
That's my reaction to Obama winning the Nobel Peace Price.
I voted for the guy, and whilst I've been bitterly disappointed with his economic policies, I generally think that on foreign policy he's on the right track. But if this were a 400 metres race, he wouldn't even be through the first turn.
Things are better in Iraq but it's still only the sort of peaceful where people die every day in political violence.
Afghanistan is going the other way. It's one hell of a mess on the way to being a disaster of biblical proportions.
North Korea and Iran are still making nuclear weapons. Burma is still run by a repressive military regime. People are still being persecuted and dying in Darfur.
Obama's approach on all these issues is measured and considered and patient (unlike his predecessor who showed all the patience and consideration of a teenage boy), but it will be quite some time before he's achieved anything lasting and substantial.
Update 10:30 am Mountain Time: Ok, it seems need to translate "What the f... were you guys thinking?" into Norwegian. It seems that the Peace Prize is awarded in Norway, unlike the rest of the Nobel prizes which are awarded in Sweden.
