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President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in what the Associated Press called "a stunning decision designed to encourage his initiatives to reduce nuclear arms, ease tensions with the Muslim world and stress diplomacy and cooperation rather than unilateralism."
Stunning and surprising, yes. Obama had spent just two weeks in office before the February 1 deadline for the award. Good judgment? Only time will tell. We hope that the president's aspirations eventually become acts but, as yet, they are just aspirations. The Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize Winner, doesn't pin his hopes on such aspirations, saying, "there is often a big disparity between the way in which we perceive things and the way things really are."
On the other hand, Yasser Arafat, also a Prize winner, said: "Let us be worthy of those who pin their hopes on us. May God bless you with success."
Obama joins the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel and Mother Teresa --- the great arbiters of peace, justice and love in our modern times. May he be worthy of those who pin their hopes on him.
We are not guaranteeing success, but we must guarantee effort. ~Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize winner
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