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LewWaters
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 Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2015 3:10 am Post subject: Kerry Recalled His War Experience |
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Actual full title As Kerry Recalled His War Experience at End of Iran Talks, ‘Everyone Had Tears in Their Eyes’
| Quote: | In the closing minutes of the Iran nuclear negotiations in Vienna this week, Secretary of State John Kerry made a comment about having gone to war as a young man and not wanting to do so again, leaving everyone in the room, including the Iranians, with “tears in their eyes.”
Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman, the lead U.S. negotiator in the talks, recounted the moment while addressing the annual Generation Prague Conference at the State Department on Wednesday.
Sherman said that in the final plenary session, with the media out of the room, each of the foreign ministers of the P5+1 group – the U.S., Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany – and Iran “made a statement about what this meant to them.”
“All of the remarks, by all of the ministers, including [Iranian Foreign] Minister [Javad] Zarif, were very moving, because it was private, and it was about what this deal meant to them.”
Kerry was the last to speak, Sherman said, and at the end of his remarks, he said: “When I was 22, I went to war” – before choking up.
“He couldn’t get the words out,” she recalled. “And everybody was completely spellbound.” |
My guess is they were tears of laughter if he truthfully recounted his scant 4 months in country.  
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Seth Lipsky adds;
| Quote: | Feature Secretary of State Kerry. He might have been president but for the fact that he fell away from the American cause in Vietnam — in which he had served for four months — and, in 1971, testified before the Senate against his fellow GIs.
His presidential campaign ignited an election-year uprising by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who deemed him “unfit for command.” Now Mr. Kerry is suggesting that the Iran nuclear deal is the culmination of what he learned in Vietnam.
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No doubt one reason the Iranians were clapping was that Mr. Kerry neglected to mention the role of diplomacy in the Vietnam tragedy. It was not our military that delivered free Indochina to the Communists. Our military won the war on the ground.
It was diplomacy that gave us the accord that was supposed to bring peace with honor, like the accord that Mr. Kerry has just inked in Vienna. Instead, the Communists broke the agreement the minute it was signed, and conquered Vietnam with arms. |
Vietnam Makes a Last Call On American Voters
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