Will Obama's Nobel Peace Prize be Taken Away?

“STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP)— Nobel Peace Prize officials were facing a formal inquiry over accusations they have drifted away from the prize's original selection criteria by choosing such winners as President Barack Obama, as the nomination deadline for the 2012 awards closed Wednesday.
The investigation comes after persistent complaints by a Norwegian peace researcher that the original purpose of the prize was to diminish the role of military power in international relations.
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden's capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel's will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county...”

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If one studies the recent American recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize,(Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama) we see that they are essentially wimps that won the prize for back-peddling away from tyranny and bowing down to despots (literally, in the case of Barrack Obama). The people who have contributed most to world peace have actually been the opposite of the wimps who won, but did not deserve, the prize.

The best weapon against belligerents (the war mongers) of the world is application of the old theory: fighting fire with fire. Reduction of arms did not help the two originating countries: Norway and Sweden, combined at the time of the origin of the Prize, were later occupied by Nazi Germany.

Old “Blood and Guts” General George S. Patton probably contributed more to peace in Norway and Sweden than Albert Nobel and all of the recipients of his prize. It was Patton and his troops that stopped the Belgian Bulge, Hitler’s last act of desperation in WWII. Of course, Patton was never a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Franklin Roosevelt, who gave the go-ahead for the development of the atomic bomb, and Harry Truman, who okay-ed its dropping on Japan, were never considered for the Nobel Peace Prize, but their acts dwarf any of the acts of genuine peace-making by those chosen by the Nobel Prize Committee. Nor were the scientists who invented the atomic bomb, considered.

Among those eligible to submit nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize: College professors, mainly those in the liberal arts, submit nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize. Former winners are also eligible to submit nominations. There is definitely a liberal bias in the nomination procedure for the prize. All of which have made the prize itself, meaningless; in fact, acts by the winners have often initiated actions (such as Obama's reduction in our armed forces and coddling despots like Iran's leader) have resulted in the weakening of the force that have held the war mongers in check.

Footnote: Ironically, the main use of Albert Nobel's invention, explosives, led to his wealth. His original dynamite factory became a munitions manufacturing plant.