My take on the whole damn thing today...Ed said it better:

An Ignoble Prize : Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

Could he at some point deserve it? Absolutely. But he certainly doesn't deserve it yet. At best, this is the triumph of hope over substance.

Of course, rational people stopped taking the Nobel Peace Prize seriously long ago. Any peace prize that can be awarded to Henry Kissinger pretty much loses any right to be called a peace prize.