Ben Smith: Nobel Committee Can Feel More Confident Now About Obama’s Peace Prize

Ben Smith at Buzzfeed believes with the new Iran deal, President Obama may now be more worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize than he was when he received it.

Obama was elected as an anti-war figure, but his legacy has been split between winding down two wars and escalating America’s campaign of drone strikes and paramilitary raids in a region ranging from Pakistan to Somalia. At the White House Saturday night, he made clear how he wants to be remembered:

“I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush toward conflict,” the president said…

At a presidential campaign debate in South Carolina in 2007, he took a left-field question about sit-down meetings with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, and other hostile nations. Obama promised to sit down with those leaders in his first year, a gaffe so outrageous that his aides immediately tried to spin it away to reporters — before finding that the candidate’s instinct had been right, and voters liked the idea.

…presidents must have priorities and Obama has made his clear. Now he’s earned the foreign policy legacy he campaigned on. And now perhaps the Norwegians can feel a bit more confident about their hasty reward.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.