Forbes.com
Surely the Norwegian Nobel Committee meant well in awarding this year’s Peace Prize to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). But for all the courage of OPCW inspectors now working in Syria, this award is like giving the mob a medal for gun control. Not only is the OPCW ill configured to rid the globe of chemical weapons; in practice it serves as a clubhouse conferring a false stamp of legitimacy on such alleged violators as Russia and Iran.