Obamas Nobel no longer undeserved

April 18, 2015 11:47

In 2009, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided that the Nobel Peace Prize was to be awarded to US President Barack Obama "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples", and within the first year of his election as the American president, no one, not even the recipient himself, thought that he deserved it.

None of his past acts will match his recent, path-breaking moves towards Myanmar, Cuba and Iran. All American soldiers have not come home from Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere, but the image of the United States today is of a restrained and reasonable power, and not of a Don Quixote tilting at windmills. Obama is now looking more like a Nobel Laureate than he did in 2009.

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