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Article: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE Cheapening the honor
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2002
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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
Richard Cohen
Cheapening the honor
By RICHARD COHEN The Washington Post
Tuesday, October 15, 2002
It would have been asking too much of former President Carter --
or anyone else, for that matter -- to have told the Nobel Committee
to take its peace prize and stuff it. But the committee, which used
Carter to criticize President Bush, not only cheapened the prize, but
it distracted from the very good reason Carter was so deserving of
the honor: his lifelong commitment to peace.
In their official announcement, the Norwegians -- the peace prize
is the only one not awarded by the Swedish academy -- contrasted
Carter's approach to the Iraq crisis with Bush's. Then, as if no one ...