41 Senators for the deal, the Pope coming to DC and the UN - this should be a great month

[karynnj]

2. He really does - and the world does need everything he has done - and that he is willing to keep

taking on more challenges. (I really hope that the Kerry/Moniz alliance has a repeat performance on climate change pacts that lead to Paris 2016.)

More than any awards that might come his way, I would bet that it really has to be incredible for him to have succeeded on this deal. The more we hear of Netanyahu having argued for attacks on Iran - and being held off by internal Israeli disagreement - and other things that essentially confirm that the pressure was for the US to lead an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities - something that could not realistically be done without setting off a major war, the more we know what that group in Vienna has accomplished. This is new to me, but this is what he (and Obama) faced from the beginning.

The story Wendy Sherman told of Kerry speaking last and the reaction of the foreign ministers tells it all. This was a gruelling, difficult accomplishment -- made even more dramatic by his having to deal with a broken leg, without pausing his work on this.