I hope that if President Obama has not read Greg Mortenson's "Three Cups Of Tea" and/or met with Greg, he will do that soon.   And if Mortenson has had the President's ear, either in person or by way of the book, I hope Obama will give serious thought to the approach that Mortenson describes in the book.


I'd like to think that if Mortenson had been awarded the Peace Prize the US might have taken serious notice of that and the reasons for the award. But in all probability, if anyone as relatively unknown as Mortenson had received the Nobel Peace Prize, the award would have been mentioned only in brief blurbs on page 37 of most newspapers and totally ignored by radio and TV (except perhaps for shows like The Daily Show or Rachel Maddow or Thom Hartmann).