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He won it for his diplomacy between people.  Yeah give Syria millions and they will do as you command.  Give other countries the better deal and they will be willing to talk more.

Remember that Nobel Peace Prize that President Obama got in 2009? Well, maybe it wasn't such a good
idea after all, a former top Nobel official said.

In a just-released book, Geir Lundestad, director of the Nobel Institute for 25 years until stepping down last
year, said the prize committee had expected the honor to deliver a boost to Obama, something he believes
did not happen.

Speaking to The Associated Press, Lundestad, who sat in on the secretive committee's meetings but did not
have a vote, said the committee "thought it would strengthen Obama and it didn't have this effect."

"In hindsight, we could say that the argument of giving Obama a helping hand was only partially correct," he
wrote, according to VG, a Norwegian newspaper.

The award, made by the committee in response to Obama's stated aim of ridding the world of nuclear weapons,
 came nine months after he took office.

"Even many of Obama's supporters believed that the prize was a mistake," Lundestad wrote in "Secretary of
Peace. 25 years with the Nobel Prize".

"In that sense the committee didn't achieve what it had hoped for," he said, noting that Obama himself rarely
mentions the prize.

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Meanwhile, when the institute announced the award, it was met with fierce criticism in the U.S., where many
argued that Obama had not been president long enough to have an impact worthy of the Nobel.

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