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From who? Those foreign leaders?

I and others also guessed the foreign leaders, too!

I predict President Bush and Dick Cheney will work in references to Kerry's "special briefing" in their campaign speeches just like they did to Kerry's foreign leaders comment.

“I PLEDGE to you, on your behalf and on behalf of the other 96% of humanity, that within weeks of being elected I will return to the United Nations, and not only rejoin the community of nations but also turn over a proud new chapter in America's relationship with the world.” That typically tortuous peroration from John Kerry's stump speech concerns one of his most important themes: foreign policy. If Mr Kerry carries it out, this “new chapter” would mark a fundamental break with the Bush administration.

Mr Kerry promises to restart negotiations on the Kyoto anti-global-warming treaty, open bilateral talks with North Korea and Iran, appoint envoys to the Middle East and for nuclear proliferation, aid failed states, stop bunker-buster bombs—and even give all Americans a chance to learn a foreign language. And that does not include profound differences with Mr Bush over Iraq. Europeans may think this orgy of multilateralism almost too good to be true. They could be right.

In trying to strike a balance between multilateralism on the one hand and continued assertiveness on the other, Mr Kerry is returning to the hard-headed “progressive internationalism” of Roosevelt and Truman, which dominated American foreign policy throughout the cold war. This is not the peacenik wing of the Democratic Party. His advisers include Richard Holbrooke, the man who ran President Clinton's Bosnia policy, and Sandy Berger, a former national security adviser. His chief foreign-policy adviser, Rand Beers, was once in the Bush team.