Dhaka, July 2 -- Let's begin with a truth, harsh though it may sound. Of late, in fact in the past many years, a considerable degree of controversy has come to be associated with the selection process relating to the probable winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. There have been regrettable instances of people not qualified for the prize to be honoured nevertheless by the Nobel Committee, leaving questions hanging in the air about the way these individuals came by the award.

Fortunately for us, though, there have also been circumstances where the Nobel Peace Prize did not fall into the lap of the undeserving. We recall a time following the invasion and destruction of Iraq by George W. Bush and Tony Blair in 2003 when the idea of the two men ...