Peace Out

So it's Nobel Prize time.  The science awards are almost always well-deserved.  Lately, the literature prize has been as political as it's been aesthetic.  But for a long time, the Peace Prize has been a joke.  Still, that didn't prepare me for yesterday's punchline.

Do they really think giving it to the EU adds lustre to the award? Whether or not you support the actions of the organization, it's a stretch to claim it's instrumental in supporting peace.  Would Europe fall into another World War without it? Explain how, please. Is it that the EU is such a super-bureaucracy that it prevents anything from being done, war or otherwise?

Of course, it's even funnier considering the crises that the EU faces (or ignores) at present, which sometimes even boil up into violence.  But I guess the Norwegian Nobel Committee has become its own bureaucracy, and so prefers hanging medals on other bureaucracies.