Study Finds John
Kerry Worst Secretary of State In the History of Ever
By Emily Zanotti on 2.5.15 | 1:18PM
We all knew it. Even he probably knew it. But now, there's
scientific proof.
John Kerry is the worst Secretary
of State in history according to a survey of
professors at the top 25 foreign policy schools conducted by Foreign
Policy Magazine, losing out, even, to "Don't Know."
Foreign Policy magazine this week announced the results of
its 2014 Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from
1,375 U.S. colleges.
One question they were asked was: “Who was the most
effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?
The winner? Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger, who was
secretary for four years during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Since the Vietnam
thing didn’t turn out so well, the scholars must have been grading him on
openings to China and the Soviet Union when he was at the National Security
Council?
Kissinger got 32.21 percent, extraordinary in such a large
field.
“Don’t Know” came in a relatively distant second, with 18.32
percent.
James Baker —
who was actually the most effective secretary in the last 50 years — came in
third at 17.71 percent, just behind Dr. Know.
Former Obama Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tied with Clinton Secretary of State Madeline
Albreight for fourth. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were
10th and 11th, respectively. Of the scholars who responded, Kerry earned
exactly two votes, and came in after Lawrence
Engleberger who was Secretary of State for a whole six weeks at the
end of George
H. W. Bush's second term, and
spent most of that time keeping the chair warm for the Clinton appointee.
Much of this probably has to do with Kerry's abysmal
failings in the Middle East, his reluctance to attend important international
functions, and his preference for improving his wind surfing skills over
attending to international crises. It also might have something to do with his
international crusade against Global Warming, which, while consisting of much
hot air, paper, effort and air travel (of which, ironically, contribute to
Global Warming) won't produce fruits unless we all come to the universal
conclusion that John Kerry saved us from a sudden and fiery death at the hands
of a raging hole in the ozone layer - kind of hard to prove.
At any rate, it's nice to know our collective impression of
Kerry's effectiveness is objectively verified.
Secretary of State
Hillary Rodham
Clinton was the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and is a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Note: Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, and the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
James A. Baker III
is an honorary director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), was the secretary for the U.S. Department of State, the under
secretary of commerce for the Gerald R.
Ford administration, and the secretary of state & chief of staff for
the George H.W. Bush administration.
Henry A. Kissinger is a director at the Atlantic
Council of the United States (think tank), an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), was the secretary for the U.S.
Department of State, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Condoleezza Rice is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States
(think tank), an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, was
the secretary for the U.S. Department of
State, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference
participant (think tank).
Madeleine K.
Albright is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee, and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
Colin
L. Powell is an honorary director at the Atlantic Council of the United States (think tank), an overseer at
the International Rescue Committee, and was the secretary for the U.S. Department of State.
John
F. Kerry is the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and married to Teresa
Heinz Kerry.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to John F. Kerry,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and is the president for the Barack
Obama administration.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for Vietnam.
Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank) was a funder for Vietnam.
Theodore G.
Osius III is the U.S. ambassador for Vietnam,
and was a senior fellow at the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (think tank).
Henry A. Kissinger is a trustee at the Center for Strategic and International
Studies (think tank), a director at the Atlantic Council of the United
States (think tank), an overseer at the International Rescue Committee,
a member of the Bohemian Club, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), was the
secretary for the U.S. Department of
State, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Richard M. Nixon
was an honorary member of the Bohemian Club, and was the president for the Richard M. Nixon administration.
George H.W.
Bush is a member of the Bohemian Club, the chairman emeritus for the National Constitution Center, and
was the president for the George H.W. Bush administration.
William J. Clinton
was the chairman for the National
Constitution Center, the president for the William J. Clinton
administration, is the founder of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, and married to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Hillary Rodham
Clinton is a director at the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton
Foundation, married to William
J. Clinton, and was the secretary at the U.S. Department of State.
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