In just a month, the Norwegian Nobel Committee will announce the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Too often, the five Norwegian politicians who decide the honor end up embarrassing themselves.

In 1991, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won the honor. Years later, she would support ethnic cleansing against Rohingya Muslims. The committee, likewise, awarded Palestinian Liberation Organization Chief Yasser Arafat the 1994 prize, never mind that Arafat rejected the peace his own negotiators hashed out at Camp David in 2000 and supported terrorism until his 2004 death.