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| Peter Beinart on Kofi's Peace Prize |
| 2001-10-25 |
Last month the Nobel Committee did something completely useless: It awarded its Peace Prize to Kofi Annan and the United Nations. Was it the UN's anti-racism conference--with its agenda formulated largely in Tehran--that won over the committee? Or perhaps Annan's personal accomplishments--for instance his role, as head of UN peacekeeping in 1995, in pulling blue helmets out of Srebrenica so the Serbs could rape and murder the city's residents without international interference? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |