Posted on 02/05/2015 6:51:52 PM PST by Steelfish
STUDY FINDS JOHN KERRY WORST SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE HISTORY OF EVER By Emily Zanotti on 2.5.15 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.
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Yeah, sure.
I would take Perry over ANY of this lot.
Can we stick to beating up the enemy?
The illegal and muslim lovin’ Globalist New World Order tool, La Raza Ricarrdo Perrynista, is no friend of true Conservatives.
Standby to be disappointed by Abbott who was Perry’s right hand.
MAN ... that IS a long time !!
The very thought makes me sick to my stomach.
Hillary came in 4th best?
Where did they take this poll? At Wellesley?
Snarky. The Spectators must have missed the 1973 Paris Peace Accords after we stopped North Vietnamese aggression and brought peace to the region.
It wasn't until the Democrats in Congress shamelessly pushed Ford to ignore our treaty with South Vietnam in 1975, that the North Vietnamese overran our ally.
With Obama in serious running for worst prez ever, and his AG in a similar race, we now have the Secretary of State as the worst ever. Shazzam! It looks like an exact inverse of the dream team that the Creator provided when the country was being founded. Maybe the Creator has provided the current team too, to wake us up and to punish us for how we have abandoned Him.
They were both beyond horrible.
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