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obvious Nobel Peace Prize choice?  12:28 am in Uncategorized by
fairleft  Expanding a comment at David Swanson’s Save the Nobel
Peace Prize from Itself  Obviously the Nobel Peace Prize should
be given to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. In the
quickest thinking diplomatic moment of all time, he literally
prevented an imminent war by taking advantage of a U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry bonehead error, where Kerry
sneered/joked that aggressive U.S. war on Syria would be called
off only if “every single bit” of Syria’s chemical weapons were
eliminated in a week. More details are in Syria calls John
Kerry’s bluff, agrees to turn over its chemical weapons to UN!,
where I quote the Guardian on the purely rhetorical nature of
Kerry’s pseudo-demand:    Despite it all, despite hilarious
headlines like Kerry tells Russia his Syria comments were not
meant as a proposal, Lavrov pushed on, in the end providing the
world with a little peace.  If the Pea