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John Kerry - Nobel Peace Prize Nominee?
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.
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What's with the double halo thingy above his head???
a nobel prize?
i think he'd prefer a basket of apples
A horse's ASS does not eat apples.
You have absolutely got to be kidding me. Fucking retarded.
I say give him one!
It's not like they are worth a shit anymore, I mean even Barry got one. What does that tell you?
Alfred Nobel, must be rolling in his grave, feeling the pain of his Nobel Peace prize granted to garbage like Obama, or possibly the ever disgusting Kerry. What a shame!
Let's not forget ManBearPig's Nobel prize!
Half man, half bear and half pig... Excelsior!
I can see it now...
Horse-face Kerry can join his boss...
In making a new Certs commercial...
"Two, Two, Two Peace-Fakes in One!"
Just to take pause for a moment, Stockman thinks this is a good deal which will be sabotaged by the War Party. That's good enough for me to want to really look into the details and think it through. On the surface, it has to be better than another ME war. And Iran is well armed so it would be a real war this time.
Kerry would be more like Goering at Munich rather than Chamberlain.
"double halo..."
no, just two half-halo, 50-50 as suggested in the article.
for my money this deal with iran could be better than that camp david pact of begin and sadat (peace prizes). all that did was fracture the arab opposition to the zionist entity, as begin intended. this might actually be a blow against the empire. makes me doubt obama's sense or sincerity, both dubious in the extreme.
Only one?
What an insult to Kerry’s valiant service.
He deserves at least three Nobel Peace Prizes.. and a Silver Star, too.
Those sure would look nice on the mantelpiece in Kerry's library, right next to his Stanley Cup.
What's at stake here resembles the natgas situation in Ukraine: energy trafficking by rival gangs. If the talks succeed, it will be because the western cartel takes a huge cut out of Iranian exports. Negotiations broke down in Ukraine because the cartel in charge of American foreign policy wasn't allowed to simply walk in and take complete control of Russian supply to Europe at the Ukrainian border. There's no place here for a "Nobel Peace Prize," unless they want to make it completely farcical, but then, debasement and destruction of all our symbols, values and institutions is what psychopaths do, so go ahead: give him the stupid thing. Maybe he'll donate the money for famine relief.
There is no deal, it is a ridiculous farce. Murdering mullahs stand there and laugh as progressive dhimmi fools obama and kerry bow before them. And this deal will result in moar war, only it will be regional nuclear war.
The failure of progressive policy wielded by obama, kerry and hillary is off the scale. Everything they touch turns into death. Look what they did to Libya, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Ukraine etc..etc...literal rivers of blood that progressive murderers want to award themselves for.
The award for murder on a regional scale should be public hanging.
Grimaldus
Huh? Do you mean like half man and half pigbear, or like half bear and half manpig?
They should rename it the Newman Prize, after Alfred E. Newman.
There should be a Douche Bag Prize each year
http://patterico.com/files/2009/12/Rockwall-Auto-Center-Oil-Change.jpg#f...
At least Kerry put in some miles and hours. That is far more than Prezzie.
A lot of effort just to look extra stupid.
Grimaldus
how about a nice new toupée instead?
I hope and change that he gets it.
One more nail in the coffin of the Nobel Prize.
Apples?! No, better a pile of dung dumped on the head of this scumbag.
Apples?! No, better a pile of dung dumped on the head of this scumbag.
There's a law still on the books in kentucky you can't have a ice cream cone in your back pocket. It because a horse will follow said ice cream cone away from where its supposed to be
"There's a law still on the books in kentucky you can't have a ice cream cone in your back pocket."
Damn it! Don't give the gun and badge thugs any extortion and violence ideas.
The banksters need to repay us.
"We had a report of a man walking in the street with an ice cream cone in his back pocket. Officers responded, and when the perp reached for the cone, he was shot 41 times. Later at the perp's home, officers found an arsenal of cones, some jumbo sized, and an ample supple of ice cream that could be used to load those cones. The officers are not responsible for the lady that was killed down the street. If the perp had been more cooperative the officer would not have had to respond the way the did, and that lady would still be alive."
Well they used to hang horse thieves in this case they need to hang the horse face. Watching Rome fall sucks .unless your southern
Is Kerry not accomplishing what everyone on ZeroHedge wants? Assuming reports are true, this deal will be a boon for Iran, a power balancer in the mid-east, and a definite shackle on Israel.
I don't understand the apparent diversion of interests and opinions.
Nobody wants progressive or islamic tyranny.
What ZH wants is Kerry and the lawless obama regime in jail along with their criminal banker freinds.
Grimaldus
Horizontal devils horns.
Prize should be given to Lavrov and Zarif.
Its a nuclear blast shockwave!
It took awhile but I figured it out. It's his thought balloon .... a double air burst.
STop it!!!
"stop" hell....
i wanna see a line of Horse jokes 50 comments long starting....NOW!
Neigh! Not that!
How did Kerry get the Iranians to co-operate?
Ans: He "nagged" them
Iran to win as Kerry trotted to victory.
Because somebody has to: Why the long face John?
No one can talk to a horse of course, unless of course, the name of the horse, is the famous John Kohn.
Like a good NEIGHBOR...
You can lead a horse to water...but not in California.
Neigh way, Jose!
Hey, easy on the horse jokes, you guys. Show some respect for the Secretariat of State.
OMG...plus infinity upvotes
Q: Why did the John Cohn "Kerry" cross the road?
A: Because somebody shouted hay!
Q: Why was John Cohn "Kerry" naked?
A: Because the jockey fell off.
I meant "stop it" as in I cant take this sheeeit...
The NOBEL committee review:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LND1PypBnrU
Munich II
"He could go down in history books as being a monumentally important character, like Jimmy Carter with Camp David......"
'cause that is going so well.
Camp David amounted to bribing both parties. Israel got about $5 billion a year and Egypt got like $3.
However, if Carter does deserve a Peace Prize, it's certainly for everything he's done after leaving office.
Don't forget Jimmy 'Jesus' Carter was on the Trilateral Commission which makes him a traitor... nothing can erase that.
Jimmy Carter actually passed an academic nuclear engineering program. Then became a peanut farmer again. Jon Kerry passed a different test in college, and then became a tax farmer. I'll bet Obama would let him borrow the bling anytime.
Misstep in dealing with the Iranians could lead to Nobel peace prices catching fire at Fahrenheit 451.
What about the 2 million Arabs he helped kill or is that why they're considering him for the peace prize.
This world has become absolutely too fucking bizarre for me. Any room on your planet?
Teleporter ready: 3,2,1......
As someone once said before, "He is a haircut looking for a brain!" LOL
Rigged horse race.
Remember if you ask John Kerry about secret societies you get tazed. Lol why did it turn into taxed damn auto correct. Remember to ask your leaders about secret societies
I guess that works in the end
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE
Nobel war price
So Kerry gets credit for helping to establish a laundry list of things that will be bickered over for the next few months, but probably never come to pass. Meanwhile, Iran builds the nukes, agreement, no agreement, whatever. Sad thing is, in our international relations, this is the best we've got going. Sad state of affairs.
Maybe Kerry needs to hook the Iran guy's genitals to the electric shock treatment, while we go raging through the joint like Gen-jjiss Khan. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Iran has been "six months away" from a bomb since 1992.
... what that means is Goerge W. Bush's campaign to lie America into war wasn't novel at all. It's standard operating procedure.
Then why not give Dubya the prize??
Cause Dubya got the gay prize Jeff Gannon instead - http://sacredowls.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Bush-Gannon-Hail-Hydra.jpg
Dubya gets the gay prize no doubt. Who can forget Dubya kissing King Abdullah!!
https://youtu.be/3cMlIsd0seo
Would someone please give that " Knob Gobbler" an apple?!
like a pig
Fuck you John Kerry you Gold Digging, Botox Filled, lying sack of shit phony War Story, Tiny Dick Sucking Prick. Rot in Hell you Motherfucker.
WTF is with all of these Halo Pictures of these fucktards?
Your deep love for the man shines through your elegant prose.
Because that's what we really need. More government officials getting Nobel Peace Prizes.
/sarc off
Good ole' Carter and Camp David.
How did that work out? Oh yeah, the Middle East is a whole lot more fucked up now.
We should just leave the whole region be; I'm sure someone will still sell the oil.
WTF!! Yeah lets blame it all on Carter. Jesus fucking Christ!!! I have fucking heard it all now!!!
The Nobel Prize is such a fucking joke now. Eveyone and their mother has one.
I like physicist Richard Feynman's opinion on the Nobel Prize and on "honors".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkv0KCR3Yiw
I don't have one and my mother doesn't have one.
Feynman always struck me as an arrogant jerk. I do agree with you that the Nobel Prize has become something of a bad joke but still, if someone wants to confer an honor on you, accept it gracefully, don't throw it in their face.
Great link, great human. Thanks.
What a total crock of shit. What in God's name makes anyone think Iran will abide by the terms of this "agreement"? For anyone who believes that, I've got a flying pig, a talking dog, and a pink unicorn I'd like to sell them. Iran will nod it's collective head, grin a toothy grin, shake John Kerry's boney hand and then it will go right on doing exactly whatever it wants to do in secret, just exactly as it has done before, while it snickers at the brainless horseface haircut sucker in a suit strutting around acting like he actually accomplished something. It's sickening.
I'd like to buy all three of them please. I'm sure I could make a killing on the resale.
Get in line Bub. There's about 5 million suckers ahead of you already.
It's not Iran you have to worry about not honouring the text of any signed agreement. Ask the Canadian softwood lumber industry to see how American honours it's written agreements. It ignores them whenever it wants to.
Well the issue of course is, there is no text of an agreement or final agreement signed by any nations reps to violate. So its like a two-fer for moar war on a grand scale, a violation for something never agreed on that has been "in the future" violated somehow, by one or more parties.
Its just a diplomatic make work project amounting to nothing now, Kerry lost, the sanctions will be lifted and the UN Security Council will get at least one nay vote to re-impose for any violation, of something never signed or agreed upon.
Well done Obama, now the Saudis will want nukes too (take a another bow to your king) what could possibly go wrong?
Not far from the truth that. So, who's scamming whom?
Of course it's Iran we need to worry about, that lying bunch of scumsuckers have been playing us all for fools for decades. Hey, with ten thousand years worth of oil under their feet, they have no need for nuclear energy. They're all about bombs and power and I don't even blame them.
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The Iranians have abided by the terms of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty since signing it during the days of the despicable Shah Pahlavi regime. It seems they take things like treaties far more seriously than the US of A.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MH16Ak03.html
'Americans' are used to turning eyes away from anything that could be break them out of their cocoon of fantasy and propaganda.
But, hey, it is well known that, for 'americans', fantasy must prevail and that the burden of proof is irrelevant.
Bullshit!
I think the idea is based around the idea that they have been weeks away from a nuclear bomb for the last 15 years. If they have been that close for that long and held back, why not let them get some credit for the next 10 years of the same?
Did'nt the guy responsible for Oh Bummer's Peace Prize get the boot, or something along those lines?
http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/First-Time-in-a-Century-Nobel-Peace-Prize-Chairperson-Demoted-20150304-0013.html
Thorbjoern Jagland was removed from his position as the chair of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee Tuesday, a position he has held for the past six years.
This is the first time in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize that a chair has been demoted.
For years, China has pressed for him to be replaced because the committee in 2010 awarded the peace prize to Liu Xiaobo, a jailed Chinese dissident. After the prize was given to Liu, China froze diplomatic relations with Norway.
Jagland will remain on the committee, just not as the chairperson.
In 2012, the Nobel Prize Committee gave the award to the European Union. Three Nobel Peace Prize winners, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, slammed the decision, saying, “The EU is clearly not ‘the champion of peace’ that Alfred Nobel had in mind when he wrote his will …
So they're going to give a Peace Prize to a guy who criminally conspired to lie us into a war with Syria just a couple of years ago?
Are they on crack?
"So they're going to give a Peace Prize to a guy who criminally conspired to lie us into a war with Syria just a couple of years ago?"
.....and Ukraine more recently? I think being a lying walking, talking anus is a prerequisite for the Nobel Piece(of shit) prize now.
Yeah, crack whores can easily be bought.
.....it depends, is he handy with drones?
"I was for nuclear non-proliferation before I was against it!"
Sounds like something that horse faced liar would say.
After all, it's never been about nuclear weapons. The whole 'problem' with Iran is that they undid the 1953 "regime change" in 1979. The US has been trying to install another submissive and compliant puppet ever since.
Of course, in its fictional role of The Good Guys®, the US has always needed a pretext to overthrow uncooperative governments. That's why the myth of an Iranian atom bomb program has been hyped since the post 9-11 power grab.
Hardly a day goes by I don't live in fear of The Twelvethers.
The Deal
Justin Raimondo of
Antiwar.com liked it
quote:
President Obama did a masterful job in presenting the basic parameters of the deal in his speech: unlike his critics, he sounded like a true statesman, one who is looking to history, and not the next election or the next day’s headlines.
Everything obama has touched has turned into death and corruption. THE SCALE OF HIS CRIMES IS OFF THE CHART. Progressiveness will be outlawed in the future for the crime that it is.
Grimaldus
historic on infamous - time will tell. Based upon this gov't's track records, I lay 2:1 on infamy. This idjits are so busy concocting leagacies, they just follow one clusterfuck with a bigger one. Its not really an accord, but call it that and take a bow. We'll bomb them later. Shit even the Frogs won't surrender on the deal for fuck's sake!
Flip flopping feeding the horse a apple or steroid overdose to disceive the outcome achievement.
-John Kerry 2015.
Gotta give him the Prize before he starts a Drone War of his own Against Iran next year.
Well Being Victoria Fcuk EU Nuland's boss, Kerry surely deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.
The Nobel Peace prize has no meaning is just an enabler to create more war as we have seen from the one given to Obola.
Will his prize and check say "Kerry" or "Kohn?"
Direct-deposit of the reward fiat to BIS.
The banksters need to repay us.
What about me?! I haven't overseen murder, war, and treason.
After Caligula made his horse a senator this will be the second time in history that a horse will be given a high level recognition.
Well, there were four horsemen of the Apochalypse. Maybe two down, two to go.
I'm having a laugh.
Interesting, John Kerry thinks it is his merit? And what about Lavrov? And even more interesting, Lavrov himself says that this was in fact Putin's own plan all along. I wonder what kind of play is being played here??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp3QdkaScvQ
Neville Chamberlain ? Learn some history. What was he supposed to do, force France to honour its treaty with Czechoslovakia ? How ? Daladier was at Munich and wanted to renege on treaty obligations to Czechoslovakia - Britain had NONE. Maybe France having played hardball at Versailles and ditched Wilson's 14 points when it came to applying them to Germany wanted the USA to fight the war for Versailles......but the Americans were hiding away especially after Japan sank USS Panay and FDR ran for cover.
The US is today a War Economy like the Third Reich. It hankers for war. Britain was in no mood to fight for a landlocked Central European country with the largest armaments factory in Europe protected by defence treaties with France and USSR.
Here's the version of history that wasn't written by the victors.
http://www.tomatobubble.com/id304.html
Hitler is pushed to the brink by the deliberate abuse of the Sudetenland Germans. He threatens to liberate the Sudetenland by force, a move that could lead to war with Britain, France, and the USSR. In an 11th hour attempt to avoid war, Hitler invites three European leaders for a conference in Munich.
The Munich Conference is attended by four European heads of State. Hitler, Mussolini of Italy, Daladier of France, and Chamberlain of Britain meet in good faith for the purpose of resolving the crisis triggered by the artificial gangster State of Czechoslovakia.
The parties agree that the Sudetenland should rightfully be united with Germany, and that the Slovaks should also have their own State. (Slovak Republic 1939-1945).
The fake Czechoslovakian state is disolved and Germany establishes autonomus protectorates over what remains (Bohemia and Moravia). Without a shot being fired, Germans are welcomed into the Reich, while ethnic Czechs and Slovaks also get their own states. Even the minority Poles and Hungarians then join their respective father nations. The Munich Agreement is a win-win-win-win--win for all 5 of Czechoslovakia's ethnic groups!
http://www.tomatobubble.com/id587.html
"Chamberlain (speaking off the record to Kennedy while playing golf) stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war". (The Forrestal Diaries ed. Millis, Cassell 1952 p129).
I meant to say: despite all that warmongering over Ukraine, they basically went along with Putin over Syria and now they go along with Putin's plan for Iran. There is something very strange here.....
Iran has a nuke already---or, what amounts to the same thing, could easily buy one from north Korea. That's why they were able to negotiate in the first place. The US needs Iran to come in from the cold to help hold down the price of oil, a lot more than Iran needs the US (right now they have Russia as a far more reliable ally).
Pissing off the Israelis, who became more trouble than they were worth as a client to Uncle Sugar once Israel under Likud started taking seriously the whole idea of being the Jewish state, as opposed to the Jewish dumping ground, is gravy.
Kerry's on the short list for the Peace Prize, never fear.
I can't believe the doubters on here!
If the CIA says he should get one, then he should get one.
Nobody knows peace like the CIA.
Y'all just be hatin'.
meh, chalk the hatin' up to early onset caused by aluminumall dat in the water ; )
Bizzaro world. We're livin it.
Bizzaro world. We're livin it.
John Kerry and a horse go into a bar.
The bartender pours Kerry a drink and asks, "Why the long face?"
It just never gets old.
Oh for Pete's sake!
I'd rather cast my lot with the Iranians than what ZH rails against daily. WTF? Am I missing something?
Yes. You're missing the fact that if you haven't been praying five times a day, you have a lot of catching up to do.
Also, with a billion and a half muzzies on the planet, all of the good virgins in heaven have probably been taken by now, especially since those ahead of you get 72 each.
<- Iran will not develop nuclear weapons
<- "Peace in our time"
The guy at the Noble peace price committee that nominated Obama got demoted. It would be a bad carreer move to nominate Kerry.
If you have to give john Kerry a noble peace beej to get a deal that prevents a war, go for it. This is a gigantic loss for the Israeli Firsters.
Sounds perfectly right to me, considering what the Nobel, in fact, is.
Serious intelligent people capable of critical thinking laugh at it.
Get me my box of Nobels...in fact, give everyone a Nobel.
Kerry returned long faced from his negotiations in Iran. At one point it was thought he would end up in the winners ring, but he faltered in the final furlong and lost by a nose. He made hay whilst the sun shined though and will be looking to return and seal the deal on his next outing. The Iranians ensured he was made comfortable in his enclosure with a specially embroidered blanket presented to him after the talks. His Iranian counterpart was heard to say "what an arsehole. If we give him a sugar cube do you think he will fuck off"? It was at this point that the talks became unglued. Kerry said "Im so tired I am for the knackers yard. At least the situation is stable now - in the next few weeks I will ensure things are given the neccessary hoof in the right direction".
hahaha, a "peace prize" huh? For what exactly? Getting iran to give up something they were never going to build anyways? Repair relations that the us fucked up in the first place? what a fucking joke. someone shoot ol' horseface please. i'm so sick of his bullshit.
The deal is bullsh*t. Iran wins, Kerry and Obama win and the rest of the world loses. Iran will never live up to its obligations and will resist at all levels to comply. Once the sanctions are lifted it will be impossible to put them back. It took years to get them to where they are today. Iran will overtake the Middle East with its proxy armies.
Nice delusion.
Why not? Those Scandi clowns give them out like Cracker Jack prizes.
Obama got one just for talking hopey-changey!
Why not? Those Scandi clowns give them out like Cracker Jack prizes.
Obama got one just for talking hopey-changey!
I'm not one to fault anyone for their looks, as few of us has much to do with that.
That said, I always thought there was an uncanny similarity between John Kerry and the New England Patriots helmet logo...
Could he have been the model?
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Dumb black muslim fucked the Nobel - Ayatollah next
if the criteria used for obambam's prize is used nutandyahoo will be the next peace prize receipient.
Kerry is Bozo the fucking clown...
Okay so maybe he will get the prize, after all, Obozo got one...
Iranians/persians, what they like to refer themselves as, are nothing but arabs that view themselves as superior to all else in the region. They pride themselves in deceipt, deception, and corruption as a way of life. Making a deal with them is absurd. as they will not live up to their end of the bargain, anyway. When a nuke hits a US ally or the US we will rue the day we allowed obama and his henchman speak for our lives. When it does happen, and it will, obama and biden will be hiding under the Denver airport getting pedicures from the secret service and planning their next trip to aspen for their wives and families. In the mean time, 90mil americans dont have jobs and 50mil are on food stamps. The future looks dark. btw: obama, biden, and family are regulars at the home of the principal shareholders of general dynamics, the fourth largest purveyors of death and war in the world.
Why the fuck are you US gov trolls obsessed with Iran?
What country has Iran invaded recently?
When did Iran gov officials last break a promise?
Persia is one of the oldest empires and states in the new age on this planet, why you, fucking stupid americans want Iran to fall? Because Israel wants it? Because you are fake Jews and hide the real history of yours - the Khazars' history which has nothing in common with Middle East?
Should send them to visit the place first. Amazing country.....
The Deal with Iran. Iran is Shia, in relative terms this is like being an Anglican. The Saudi's are Sunni in relative terms this is like being a graduate of Liberty University. Who loves you?
This is imperial bullshit I don't subscribe to.
No No NO I nominate Robert DeNiro, he was the first asshat, er i mean honest actor to come out with an I am ready for Hillary button in public. Actors and politicians, all of them just one trick ponies. jeez.
Hillary sasys " Dammit Jim I am a great leader, not a great network adminstrator"
Let's ask Ukraine and Syria to vote on it.
hard to tell who the bigger a**hole is here pollock or the ketchup-king
Suffering the sickness of a headline.
Wreaaaaaccccccchhhhhhh.
What is happening in the ME Oil patch is the death of the Sunni extremist strategy launched by Pax Americana post Iran Ayatollah trauma in 1979.
The fall out of that pernicious strategy; elaborated by the CIA/ neocon clique under Reagan, was deployed to oust both Soviets and Ayatollah's twin resurgence from their concomitant hold on the region in the wake of Shah ousting and Brezhnevian knee jerk, thinking Carter's dismay in Tehran debacle was right timing for his great game play in Afghan.
We know how that played out as the Neocons first mandated Saddam to be the Sunni spear carrier in the Iran/Iraq war, all funded by Saud. When that went sour and Saddam walked into Kuwait, they then upped the ante by using the Wahhabi clique's local mantra's logic to rampage a renegade and "apostate" post-Bassist regime in Iraq.
Now the Wahhabis were all over Africa and spewing their fanaticism on two continents from Indonesia to Senegal and down to Kenya/Sudan. But the Ayatollah regime survived and became, in this regional moral decadence being egged on by the neocons in their "Fitna hate and Shia bait games" --which begat 9/11 at home; precisely by the Frankenstein that the US had created to ostensibly obliterate Soviet and Shia common "enemy" presence in the region of the US/Saud alliance, abetted by Us friend Israel.
"Houston we have a Gitmo/abu Ghraib fallout problem" became the new cry to fight the media fall out worldwide from the Patriot Act scam tailored to allow terrorist Sunni fanatic roasting/waterboarding, as now those Taliban stalwarts were no longer the darlings of Neocon circles (remember those Reagan photos) ; the finger pointing became blatant all the while those behind the Saud royalty curtain were protected. (We were now in global Oligarchy brotherhood of Carlyle Inc. and other wealth funds with the royals of that oil patch world as financial "pardners"-- from offshore locations---in welfare state neoliberal debasement ).
Well now the whole ME region was a shit pile of "the enemy of my enemy is my ally until he bombs my ass off in a suicide attack" type logic, as Dronistan became the "new barbarian" frontier. So much for friendly states of yesteryear in Pak/afghan/Iraq gone radical. And, after Libya and Syria scamming--house cleaning of despots who were MIC clients for the US/Soviet combined planned obsolescence games for 40 years-- to please the Sunni royals, it has become even worse.
Iran (by the looks of it) is now going to benefit not only from the Sykes Picot revoke we see in Syrac, where western influence outside the oil patch will be replaced by other regional players (Turkey/Iran/Egypt etc), but also from what could be the retailored Balfour declaration fallout of trying to make Israel cohabit with an independent Palestine; as stated way back in 1948 and in each subsequent UN resolution; all abandoned/nullified under the deluge of US vetoing. Looks like that may now be the situation that will develop as Egypt and Iran will gradually leave the circle of CIA's "pet poets" of yesteryear.
Dear Henry must be squirming in his pants at seeing his life's work now come undone. Well, even his role model Metternich's Vienna partition of Europe came undone once Bismarck relegated the Habsburg of Vienna to simple bystanders and reclaimed Alsace and Lorraine. It started the great African stampede of colonial mayhem and ushered in the "lebensraum" games that begat WW1 and WW2, as Pax Britannica caved in.
We are in the antechamber of Pax Americana's decline in the Oil Patch nexus of its triple play of Oil/MIC/monetary hegemony of Dear Henry's great scheme of things in "shuttle" diplomacy : Detente with the Superpowers and commercial ping ponging to dominate them technologically and commercially; all the while ensuring uncompromising butt bashing of surrogate regimes like in Nam/Cambodia/Chile to lay waste to independent minded US rivals, making those Lilliputians an offer they couldn't refuse under the military gun.
It worked well for 40 years until Steroid WS asset pumping brought the whole financial shooting match to its Lehman moment.
Hubris is a bitch and the fatal house of Atreus mindset that kills universal empires time and again.
Who will be the next Habsburg and Ottoman dynasties to demise as then when WW1 brought that past world order to its devastating obliteration?
And, as we move back to neofeudal oligarchy control of world : who will be the new Medici's of this emerging world?
Always like to read your comments. Agree with this one. Basically, it's over.
The Nobel Committee, in a special emergency vote, has awarded him a special prize under which the Committee will pay for his botox for a full year (at great risk to the Committee's finances) and further awards him a season pass to the Oslo Ink Club for unlimited service including all piercings and implants.
Anyone notice the apparent halo over Kerry's head? Power of suggestion has, perhaps, once again deluded the Swedes who bestow the Nobel. :)