John Kerry - Nobel Peace Prize Nominee?

Zero Hedge ^ | 04/04/2015 | Tyler Durden

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John Kerry did not start the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program; but, as National Journal's George Condon notes, 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.

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.

 

"If these talks succeed, that is going to be his legacy," says Kenneth M. Pollack, a former Iran-Iraq analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency and a senior staffer on President Clinton's National Security Council overseeing policy toward Iraq and Iran. "It would be an historic accord." As controversial as it would be in the United States and Israel and some Sunni Arab states, "everywhere else in the world, this is considered an unmitigated good."

 

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If a deal is reached and Iran's nuclear program is blocked, Pollack added, "I think Kerry will get an enormous amount of credit for pulling it off. He will be in line for a Nobel Peace Prize. … He could go down in history books as being a monumentally important character, like Jimmy Carter with Camp David."

 

But, Pollack stressed, there is a flip side: "He could go down as Neville Chamberlain at Munich. Both are possible here."

 

Aaron David Miller, who spent two decades at the State Department working on the Middle East for presidents of both parties, thinks the accolades for Kerry will be restrained despite his strenuous efforts.

 

"Will it be his ticket into the secretary of State hall of fame? Absolutely not. He'd like to get in, to be like [Henry] Kissinger and [James] Baker. But to do that, I think he'd have to leave another legacy," likely from the broader Middle East peace process, said Miller, who is now vice president of the Wilson Center.

 

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Time will tell indeed... next check June 30th but we suspect we know the outcome.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!

We have a winner. If Jihad Farooq Q’arri wins the NPP, he will leap-frog the baggage-laden Hillary! and certainly would become the front-runner on the Dhimmicrat race.

Now, all we have to do is discredit his “obvious” VP pick...Al Gore.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Of course he should be praised and awarded a prize as he exemplifies today's highest values; i.e. sedition, treason, contempt for constitutional and legal process and total incompetence at best. Millions of New Yorkers face a terrible death when an Iranian bomb goes off.

[molson209]

It’s not over yet , they just decided on the color paper and type size so far

[Redbob]

Why not?
Can his achievements be any less than those of Peace Prize Winner Barack Hussein Obama?

[W.]

Hey MK, I'm OK [or as close to it allowable by law]! ;)

That's a good question as the Manhattan Project started under FDR, maybe they didn't want to give a NPP posthumously? Truman did authorize dropping the bomb, so I don't know. They did things differently back then, as we are painfully aware today. Maybe they didn't use enough of Nobel's product to suit the Nobel Committee? Maybe those nuclear warheads used to instantly vaporize large amounts of Japanese and the two cities they once occupied rubbed them the wrong way?

[bgill]

The committee fired their president over the usurper’s prize. Looks like they’ll have to fire more in the near future over Lurch.

[hadaclueonce]

head on a spike after convicted of treason?

[Thank You Rush]

“”He could go down in history books as being a monumentally important character, like Jimmy Carter with Camp David.”””

He is already a monumentally important CHARACTER - in his own mind!

[Thank You Rush]

“”Millions dead from a nuclear war and John Kerry and obama will be polishing their nobel peace prize.””

One of my first thoughts and neither would care!

[Thank You Rush]

See - those horned rim glasses really do make her look smart!!!

[Thank You Rush]

“”they just decided on the color paper and type size so far””

And next will be the shape of the negotiating table in June.

[NoncompliantOne]

Well, he was in Vietnam.

[upchuck]

Enabling Iran to do even more mischief in the Middle East and possibly to the US. Yeah, peace prize winner for sure.

For those mentioning nobama’s prize, I remember reading, sorry, no link, an article written by one of the guys on the selection committee. Long story short, he was VERY apologetic.

[haircutter]

Where is his current wife hiding at?

Just wondering.

[SaraJohnson]

He’ll be known as a great thinker like Jimmah Carter.

[ronnie raygun]

Nobel peace prize is now on the status of the surprise you get in a crackerjack box so give it potatoe face for working aganist the PEOPLE of the united states just like it was given to the loser for doing nothing but making promises he didnt keep