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To understand why Obama won the prize, you need to understand about the history of the prize. The prizes were created because Nobel was upset that his invention
by MichaelApproved 12y ago
To understand why Obama won the prize, you need to understand about the history of the prize. The prizes were created because Nobel was upset that his invention of TNT caused so much destruction in the world. At the time, TNT was a WMD.
Obama's worked to reduce nuclear weapons while in the US Senate. That effort would've made Nobel proud.
Further, Obama recently removed Syria's declared chemical weapon stock pile. If he didn't earn it before this, he definitely earned it now. This is directly at the heart of why the Nobel prize was created.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize
In 1888, Nobel was astonished to read his own obituary, titled The merchant of death is dead, in a French newspaper. As it was Alfred's brother Ludvig who had died, the obituary was eight years premature. The article disconcerted Nobel and made him apprehensive about how he would be remembered. This inspired him to change his will.
- beeworker 12y agoI believe you mean Putin removed Syria's declared chemical weapon stock pile (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemical_weapons http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Syria%27s_chemic...) -- without Russia the US could have officially gone to war with Syria. The continued meddling Obama's supported in the middle east, and the utter failure in taking ISIS seriously, should be enough to strip him of any peace price.
- kolev 12y agoIsn't US at war already breaching the sovereignty of Syria by bombing its territory and training and supplying mercenaries with arms?
- kolev 12y agoDon't give too much credit to Obama, please! He is no different than his predecessor in deeds, only in words. I have no doubts that he pressed Nobel Prize directly or indirectly not to give Snowden what he well-deserved. I can't believe there are fans of Obama in this community knowing what NSA under him did, is doing, and will continue to be doing! The drones, the militarization of the Police Force is also happening under him, so, he was elected on false promises, lied many times, and was recorded saying "I'm very good at killing people." without any sign of shame.