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Maybe I'm missing something here, but given the monumental impact of his actions, why didn't win something like the Nobel Peace Prize? Instead he's largely for
by asdfologist 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but given the monumental impact of his actions, why didn't win something like the Nobel Peace Prize? Instead he's largely forgotten and unknown.
- sandworm101 10y agoIt is very hard to give the Nobel Peace Prize to serving military officers. It isn't the sort of award you give to people who carry guns to work. You can give it to them on day one for stopping a war, only then on day two see them ordered by their superiors to participate in one.
- WildUtah 10y agoThat same reasoning would have prevented Arafat and Obama's Peace Prizes. I don't think it's an insuperable argument. Mostly the problem was that nobody know about the secret Russian military records until decades later.
- sandworm101 10y agoArafat and Obama aren't military officers per se. They are the heads of their respective forces and therefore cannot be ordered by anyone to do much of anything. A naval officer is something very different than a president. But I do agree that it is awkward to give such an award to people currently heading armies.
- maxxxxx 10y agoNeither Obama nor Arafat should have received a Noble Prize. You should receive the prize only if you have a long track record of working for peace which neither had done when they received the prize.
- rhizome 10y agoYet here we are.
- Fej 10y agoI believe the information about the proposed launch was not known to the public until (long) after his death.