Iran Talks Could Win John Kerry the Nobel Peace Prize

nationaljournal.com ^ | April, 2, 2015 | George E. Condon Jr.

[PROCON]

Or, "he could go down as Neville Chamberlain at Munich." Experts say we won't know true impact of any deal for years.

April 2, 2015 John Kerry did not start the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. But nobody has thrown himself more into the talks and nobody's reputation has more riding on their outcome than the American secretary of State currently trying to hammer out a deal in Switzerland.

The former Democratic senator from Massachusetts hoped when he took the helm at the State Department in 2013 that he would make his mark in history by finding the long-elusive formula for bringing Israelis and Palestinians together. That was a mess. Instead, Kerry found himself diverted to the search for a diplomatic way to block Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Already on his way to possibly eclipse Hillary Clinton as the most traveled secretary in history, Kerry has spent a third of this year—33 of the first 92 days of 2015—in those Swiss talks.

Even if he is able to claim success, Kerry—again—may not get the payoff he'd like. Given the complexity of the negotiations, the opposition of Israel's government, and the critics in Congress, the verdict almost certainly will be mixed.

[PROCON]

Heck, I thought he'd get one for the brilliant idea of bringing James Taylor to Paris.

[JudyinCanada]

He may as well receive it. Heck, after Obama getting the prize, anything meets the benchmark.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Peace By Genocide”

Why didn’t I think of that ?

[RightGeek]

Good thing he had his magic hat.

[longfellow]

Big Deal they give those out to any muslim putz nowadays.

[healy61]

Schlonging his way to success. This man does not have the intellect to be secretary of state. I don’t care how nasally he sounds when he talks.

[shalom aleichem]

The Nobel Peace Prize is SO discredited, who could care whom they name as a recipient?

I nominate Rodney King (”Can’t we all just get along?”)

[rktman]

Reporting for doody!

[Olog-hai]

“Inshallah”!

[fatnotlazy]

Why not? The Nobel Prize is awarded based on politics. Has nothing to do with whether a potential recipient is actually worthy. Proved that when Obama was given the peace prize and he hadn't done anything yet.

[DBrow]

Seems like a plan. Get the Prize, run for President, beat JEB Bush.

Then maybe put Obama and Clinton on the Supreme Court and Liawatha as Secretary of State.

[a fool in paradise]

His talks with the North Viet Namese Communists and his talks with the Sandinistas wasn’t enough to assure his place in history???

[M Kehoe]

Did I ever say that John F'cking Kerry committed treason against the U.S. in 1972 and 1973? I didn't? Damn, I thought his SF 180 would prove that...oops, didn't someone "sanitize" those records...?

5.56mm

[blueunicorn6]

Why? What fighting did he stop?

[BCW]

I just threw up!

Kerry is Chamberlain 2.0

[a fool in paradise]

[arthurus]

Neville thought he was doing what was necessary to preserve peace and his nation.
The Sultan is doing what he thinks best for the nation's enemies and for war. He just thinks the war he is promoting will eliminate HIS two enemies, Shia Iran and Jewish Israel.

[CGASMIA68]

Obama got it for doing ZERO so the standard is hard to beat

[Morpheus2009]

It’s all the matter of a vote in the Swedish Parliament.

[mware]

Yeah, I heard he has three purple hearts too.