Obama's Nobel Prize: Gilt By Association

Yes, Obama's Nobel prize is premature. But the committee was trying to make a statement of encouragement-- that multilateralism is to be preferred over unilaterialism and that the soft power of diplomatic and culutral influence must come before hard power of bullets and bombs. It was also a rebuke to neo-conservatism with its theory of preemptive war, nation buliding, and international crusades.