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Kerry leaves a legacy of hope in role at State
Boston Globe ^ | 12-18-16 | Matt Viser

Posted on 12/18/2016 10:13:23 PM PST by smokingfrog

WASHINGTON — Under blue skies on a blazing hot day this summer, John Kerry hopped onto his bike, clipped into his pedals, and spent three hours on a grueling ride up a mountain in the Alps.

This was a year after he fell off his bike and broke his femur. This was after days in the hospital and months of physical therapy. This was after he became the butt of jokes from Donald Trump.

Now he was back on the bike, trying to ride the same Alpine pass, featured in the Tour de France, that he’d failed to complete a year earlier.

“I wanted to go back,” Kerry said. “I just was not satisfied. . . . I said, ‘I’ve got to go pick up where I left off.’ ”

It has sometimes seemed, too, that Kerry as secretary of state has tried to change the world’s ills through sheer determination and stamina. And in some important cases — like the deal to limit Iran’s capacity to create a nuclear weapon, or helping persuade nearly 200 nations to sign onto a climate agreement — his tireless efforts yielded historic results.

But, as his critics have noted, not all the world’s problems can succumb to individual will. A case in point is the future of civilians in Aleppo, the most tragic result of America’s inability to change the trajectory of Syria’s civil war, hangs heavily on Kerry’s mind.

Even as he recited some of the “what-ifs’’ on Syria policy and internal Obama administration disagreements, Kerry worked the phones with various foreign ministers last week in a bid to provide a safe haven for Aleppo’s people, who were being killed by the Syrian military’s final push to seize the city.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bicycle; kerry; kerryaccident; kerryarticle; kerrybio; kerryvietnam; secstatekerry; sos
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Kind of a puff piece, I'd say. LOL

He doesn't seem to be moving very fast.
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1 posted on 12/18/2016 10:13:23 PM PST by smokingfrog
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To: smokingfrog

Any mention of his major involvement in losing the Vietnam war?


2 posted on 12/18/2016 10:15:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: smokingfrog

He has yet to be tried for treason for selling out our country to the North Vietnamese.


3 posted on 12/18/2016 10:17:01 PM PST by kaehurowing
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To: smokingfrog

The ONLY hope now at State is the hope that the Trump administration will be able to clean up some of the EXTENSIVE damage that Obama/Clinton/Kerry leave behind in their vile wakes.


4 posted on 12/18/2016 10:17:45 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: smokingfrog

Right. Lol


5 posted on 12/18/2016 10:20:43 PM PST by stocksthatgoup (Where's Hillary?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Or his aid and comfort to Central American Communism


6 posted on 12/18/2016 10:22:39 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: smokingfrog

The article is ridiculous (of course) and the US is indeed hoping for a decent mature person to take on the SoS job.

However I will say kudos to John Kerry for taking on that bike ride in the Alps at his age. With my knees I certainly couldn’t do it.


7 posted on 12/18/2016 10:23:52 PM PST by plain talk
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To: smokingfrog

Hilarious the crap they write for their zombie readers.


8 posted on 12/18/2016 10:24:12 PM PST by JennysCool
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I Cor. 13:13: New International Version
"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."

Kerry left “hope,” hope is what is last when it is devoid of works. “You shall know then by their works.” Kerry is one stupid fool, his butt hurt that gave him a medal in Vietnam not withstanding. These clowns that write this crap need mental evaluations.

9 posted on 12/18/2016 10:24:41 PM PST by Fungi (Having my fungus and eating it too.)
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To: smokingfrog

YEAH HOPE.... what allies we have left HOPE they never see another group of self centered egotistical morons every again


10 posted on 12/18/2016 10:25:18 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: smokingfrog

Syrup of ipecac, now available in print form.


11 posted on 12/18/2016 10:32:00 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Fungi

Did you know Kerry left vietnam early (after only 92 days in-country) and that includes his days spent on leave and R&R, days training and in-doc, and days resting/recuperating between his few missions?


12 posted on 12/18/2016 10:35:27 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE

The traitor should be in prison. He is a self-important , incompetent oaf.


13 posted on 12/18/2016 10:41:46 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: smokingfrog

geeeze! They must be smoking some really good weed at the globe.


14 posted on 12/18/2016 10:42:32 PM PST by Bullish
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To: smokingfrog

Legacy of Hope they say.

From the regime who’s expertise is only the misuse of the word Hope

Pathetic.


15 posted on 12/18/2016 10:44:44 PM PST by jcon40
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To: smokingfrog

Kerry Demonstrates The Goosestep.

16 posted on 12/18/2016 10:51:54 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: smokingfrog

Hope? I hope they mean he’s going to take the remedial reading and elocution courses as soon as possible.


17 posted on 12/18/2016 10:52:27 PM PST by righttackle44 (Leave the bodies as a warning--take scalps.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Everything he touched turned to rot...


18 posted on 12/18/2016 10:55:31 PM PST by Netz ( and looking for a way ti IMPROVE mankind.)
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To: smokingfrog

Kerry’s Legacy is the same as Zero and Hilo.. Zero!!!


19 posted on 12/18/2016 11:04:17 PM PST by Davy Crocket
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To: Fiddlstix

The Ministry Of Kerry Walks.


20 posted on 12/18/2016 11:09:32 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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