Secretary of State John Kerry declared "it was easier" during the Cold War than it is in the present for U.S. foreign policy during a State Department address Tuesday.
"During the Cold War, it may not have seemed so at the time obviously to great leaders, but it was easier than it is today," he said. "Simpler is maybe a way to put it. The choices were less varied, less complicated, more stark, more clear. Communism, democracy. West, East. The Iron Curtain. The great line of divide."
Kerry and the Obama administration face a host of problems with nations such as Iran, who remains a sponsor of terrorism and continues to develop weapons technologies while the U.S. gives it sanctions relief, Syria, who violated the Obama administration's red line and whose dictator remains in power despite Obama's steadfast declaration that he should be removed, and Russia, who is in its tensest standoff with the U.S. since the Cold War over the crisis in Ukraine.
Perhaps this is why Kerry pines for the good old days of the Cold War.
Whatever happened to this guy?