Afghanistan?
Not. Kidding.
Via Weekly Standard.
Secretary of State John Kerry recently spoke at the Oxford Union and addressed a range of issues from climate change to extremism to political corruption. During the question and answer after Kerry’s remarks, one audience member asked the secretary of state to name the “proudest achievements of the Obama administration” now that President Obama’s eight years in office are coming to an end.
Kerry seemed to be somewhat taken off guard by the question, but quickly named three issues in which Kerry himself had been intimately involved: the Paris climate change agreement, the Iran nuclear deal, and the reestablishment of ties with Cuba. But then he also named Afghanistan:
Wow, that’s asking me to be sort of retrospectively judgmental. But I – I mean, obviously, I think that the global climate change agreement in Paris and the Iran nuclear agreement and the Cuba opening; the efforts in Afghanistan to hold together – transition Afghanistan; fighting – ending Ebola as a global threat….
Related:
American Interest: Obama’s Failed Legacy in Afghanistan
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Climate Change Agreement? I’m sure he is very proud of putting thousands of coal miners and electric generator technicians out of work. That will get him invited to all the trendy cocktail parties in Davos and Antwerp. Effing moron. My dad had a name for people like Kerry. Educated idiots.
Jimmy Carter WINS!!!
His Iran hostage rescue mission is a greater accomplishment.