John Kerry: The "Busy"-Body With the Gibungous Carbon Footprint--And Nothing Much to Show For It

Re the Sec'y of State keeping a running tally of the air miles he's racked up since taking office a year ago (as of last Friday, it stood at 320,961), Jeff Jacoby writes:

Kerry is certainly a hard worker. He keeps busy; he racks up the miles. But busyness is not effectiveness. It is no myth that US foreign policy in recent years has been premised on the conviction that Washington must intervene less and be constrained more. The Obama administration may call this "leading from behind" or "pressing the reset button" or having "more flexibility." It may praise itself for recognizing that there are "Good Reasons to be Humble," as Princeton's Anne-Marie Slaughter — who would later be tapped by Obama as the State Department's director of policy planning — argued in a 2008 essay. The world sees it as retreat, and reacts accordingly.

Actually, leading from behind is something Kerry does really well. No surprise there since he is a horse's ass.