Dennis Prager is calling on Elie Wiesel to hand back his Nobel Peace Prize in protest over the low repute that the Nobel Committee has given it.

Despite the fact that I'd rather 'take back' the Nobel for people who actually do work for peace, I think I'd greatly enjoy the furor that would cause.

Perhaps we here in Blogistan should institute a peace prize of our own.

Sigh... unfortunately, I suspect that's the only way the Afghan scientists will get one -- despite the fact they are more deserving than most recent winners.

The award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to V. S. Naipaul this past time halted a trend of giving it to unreadable Euro-commies. Maybe the stink from this travesty will shame them into giving the Peace prize to real peacemakers in the future.

When I was in Europe last fall, I watched a colloquium of Nobel peace prize winners talk about Sept.11. It was on CNN Europe. Of all the speakers, only Wiesel and one other were willing to call the attack and its perpetrators evil. All the others were playing some version of the root causes game. It made me quite ill.

But Wiesel's sobriety and his calm demand for moral clarity, in the face of all the rationalization and exculpation, was very impressive.