The pious leftism of the international nomenklatura is a religion. The United States may not be their Great Satan, but it’s the devil they know. The bureaucrats and the EU anointed are the priesthood - and the Nobel peace prize is the means of bestowing sainthood.
One day the Nobel people will dispense with their not-so-subtle messages aimed at delivering a kick in the leg to the United States and just bestow the whole Nobel prize-category to Osama. Eveery one from physics to literature. I mean, giving a peace prize to former President Carter just didn't have the oomph the Nobel people hoped for. And the only people who know who Pilger is already hate America.
Say it with me, Osama in '06. Even now the Nobel committee members are nodding, "Yah, that makes sense."