Congratulations to President Obama for his Nobel Peace prize. Yes: there is a point to be made about whether the award reflects his life's work or not. However, such evaluations cannot come close to approximating mathematical exactitude, especially considering the fact that a singular event in the life of nations and peoples can change the course of history.

President Obama's election promises to be one of those events. His declared commitment to steer the most powerful country in the world towards its foundational ideals, in national and international politics, and the concrete steps he has taken since becoming president in January, thoughtfully to move the world away from the abyss of a new Cold War, should be enough to make him as worthy as anyone else of the Nobel Peace Prize.

I thank you.

Fubara David-West.
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