Nobel Prize farce in Oslo

The daily Die Presse writes that Barack Obama would have done better to refuse the Nobel Peace Prize, and calls the awards ceremony a farce: "Obama would not have been the first to refuse a Nobel Prize. Two people have already declined to accept it before him. French writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre in 1964, and Le Duc Tho in 1973, who had negotiated a peace agreement with US secretary of state Henry Kissinger. ... Kissinger accepted the prize alone, and to this day he has to justify the fact that he, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, agreed to the expansion of the Vietnam War to Cambodia and Laos, and at least tolerated Pinochet's military coup in Chile. Kissinger is a good example of how a Nobel Peace Prize can be a curse. For Obama too, it will do more harm than good."

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