I WASN’T GOING TO POST ANYTHING MORE on this subject, but Richard Cohen has this brutal takedown that’s worth quoting:

In honoring Carter, the committee evoked the smugness of little powers — the many nations whose role is to carp from the sidelines while America does the necessary business of protecting them from their own folly. In this regard, it will be a minor miracle if next year’s prize does not go to French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who criticized the United States last week for its “simplistic vision of the war of good against evil.”

“Young countries,” Raffarin told the National Assembly, “have the tendency to underestimate the history of old countries.” Oui! But old countries are sometimes world-weary and cynical, urging a “realism” that is sometimes a misnomer for the moral corruption they know so very well. I will take the idealism of the young any day.

I think even Charles Austin is going to have trouble criticizing this piece.