while surprising, this is far from unprecedented.
The nobel peace prize commission often tries to seem current by recognizing emerging situations or actions, as opposed to giving the prize out as a lifetime achievement award. Hence the prizes for Kissinger and Arafat.
While certainly not deserving of anything, Obama's prize is far from the worst ever given. One look at what we know about Kissinger from FOIA requests and you can see how fucking evil that guy is.
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