Last week, we all heard surprising news: President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian committee in charge of selecting the winner said it picked Obama because of his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

The main controversy over Obama winning this prestigious award is that the president has not yet accomplished most of what he promised during the presidential election. Obama said that he viewed the award as less of a recognition of accomplishments, as the award is traditionally meant for, and more of a “call to action” for the future.

We believe that while it could be a “call to action,” it is still too early to tell whether or not he will be able to accomplish all of the issues he promised to solve and the actions he promised to complete.

Obama is seen as a world leader and is expected to solve global problems, such as getting rid of nuclear weapons worldwide and solving the problems in Afghanistan. Though he is the leader of the free world, he has not yet accomplished anything super extraordinary besides being elected to the presidency, and that is not enough to win a Nobel Prize.

He is not the only president to win the Nobel Prize; he is the fourth. Though other presidents have shared this honor, they all received the award much later in their presidency. In contrast, Obama was first considered for the prize only 11 days after his inauguration into office.

This was much too early to nominate him. Though the nation, along with the world, expects great things out of our 44th president, he has not yet done these great things. Until he does so, he should not be allowed to beat out 205 other nominees who have actually accomplished truly inspiring feats.

Obama admits that he has not yet achieved enough to deserve recognition. Instead, he takes it as what is expected to come in the next three years. But, what if these expectations are failed? Nothing is set in stone. The United States economy may not get better, nuclear weapons may not disappear, the war on terror may not be any different than it is now, and problems with North Korea may not be solved by then.

Though it is a guarantee that Obama will try to make all of these things happen, it is not guaranteed that he will be able to accomplish that feat. We all have hope that he does, but until he proves this hope to be a reality, the Nobel Peace Prize should wait.

But, it is too late to change the fact that he won this honor, so we can only hope that he lives up to the prestige expected of all winners of this prize.