JK on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert TONIGHT!

[karynnj]

13. That sure looked like Alex - so I think you might be right nt

I would guess that the iran deal being done really has to be something he is justifiably proud of - knowing he really did do what he committed to do as a young man. (Not to mention being publicly honored with a hand shake by the Pope is a pretty amazing thing.)

I don't think - other than in his led to his fiancee when his friend Pershing had been killed - he ever spoke as directly of having a goal to make peace or prevent war. Maybe because it was so close to the core of who he is and many speak the words but don't do the work. One thing I was surprised by this year was how much harder it was to get the public and Congress to agree to diplomacy than it had been to get them to agree to go to war in 2003. Even when people explained that there were no real new risks in going the diplomatic route, it was a heavy lift.