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 ...
My Mom on the power of Hope, “hope in one hand and spit in the other”
Is this a wishful opinion piece, or a blatant fake news report?
a legacy of hope they don’t get prosecuted
any mention of his idiotic james taylor debacle right after the paris mass murders?
Nice work, if you can get it.
Home town paper puff piece. Not a wasting my time.
Recovering from a broken femur is tough, particularly as you get older. So riding the Alps after recovering from that is impressive. So a tip of the hat to him for that.
However recovering from a broken foreign policy is even tougher. Particularly when Mr. Kerry and his boss are freaking clueless about how broken it is.
This suck-up article is a pathetic attempt by Matt Viser to get Kerry to notice him.
Get a room, Matt...
At least now he may be able to find the time to find the medal he received and threw away.
Ahh, Kerry. So principled hahaha.
They did a good job of PS-airbrushing out Boltneck’s training wheels.
“Any mention of his major involvement in losing the Vietnam war?”
You got that backwards. Kerry helped win the Vietnam war.
Logic: The commies won. Kerry as with most dems are commies. So like I said, the commies won, which includes Kerry.
yeah, a hope i'll NEVER see another RAT SoS!
“Kerry leaves the legacy of a dope in role at State.”
There; fixed it.
A (medal) tosser married to a gin soaked raisin says what?
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