How Obama's Nobel can resurrect diplomacy

Published November 11, 2009

Now that the saturation coverage of Obama's big Nobel win has finally subsided, it has become possible to poke around in the ashes of yesterday's news with a view to getting at the real meaning of the story.

The media focused overwhelmingly, and almost exclusively, on whether or not the president deserved the prize based upon his performance in office to date. That is a worthwhile debate, and a respectable...