In the three weeks since John Kerry succeeded Hillary Clinton as secretary of state, “he’s already sent unmistakable signals of his independence with a more assertive, proactive and risk-taking stewardship of America’s foreign policy — with a more sustained focus on the Middle East and Europe than his predecessor,” Politico reports.
Kerry “views the job as the apex of his up-and-down 40-year political career and aspires to a more central policymaking role in the Obama administration than Clinton, who practiced what one official called ‘odometer diplomacy’ — a focus on globetrotting to bolster America’s relationships abroad coupled with attempts to cope with an array of pop-up crises.”
