When U.S. President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, he joined giants of history such as Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mother Teresa.
He became one of only three sitting U.S. presidents ever to receive the honor along with Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.
But he also faced the haunting memory of past recipients who were given the award only to see their promises of peace crash on the rocks of reality and splinter into horrific violence.
In 1994, the prize was shared by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Rabin was assassinated the following year by an Israeli settler opposed to peace if it meant a compromise on land with Palestinians. And Arafat failed to lead the Palestinian people to peace and instead retreated back to conflict and terror.
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