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Article: How low can they go? Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.(THE WORLD)(Nobel committee)
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- National Review
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- November 7, 2005
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TEN years ago, a conservative writer asked a strange but pertinent question: Is the Nobel Peace Prize worth winning anymore? The occasion was the giving of the prize to Joseph Rotblat, a physicist who had spent his long life colluding with the Soviet Union in a bogus anti-nuclear movement. The conservative writer, I must confess, was ... yours truly. And little has changed, in the ensuing decade.
The problem with writing off the Nobel Peace Prize altogether is that, occasionally, they give it to someone worthy: an Andrei Sakharov, a Lech Walesa, a Kim Dae-jung. But are they peace prizes, or, more accurately, freedom prizes? What do we mean by "peace"? Merely the ...