Washington, October 10: The Nobel Committee may have stunned the world by picking US President Barack Obama for the Peace Prize but the mainstream American media has declared that the choice is largely a “rebuke” to the foreign policies of his predecessor George W Bush.
“In one sense, the award is a rebuke to the foreign policies of Bush, some of which the President has sought to overturn,” The New York Times said in an article posted on its website.
The Washington Post, in its lead news posted on the website early today, said that in choosing Obama from among 205 nominees, the committee “appeared to be continuing its rebuke of the Bush administration’s go-it-alone approach to world bodies and alliances, including its decision to go to war in Iraq without UN approval.
–PTI