War, peace and Obama’s Nobel

In These Times
by Noam Chomsky

11/05/09

The hopes and prospects for peace aren’t well aligned — not even close. The task is to bring them nearer. Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in choosing President Barack Obama. The prize ’seemed a kind of prayer and encouragement by the Nobel committee for future endeavor and more consensual American leadership,’ Steven Erlanger and Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote in The New York Times. The nature of the Bush-Obama transition bears directly on the likelihood that the prayers and encouragement might lead to progress...

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