John Kerry Rushes In Where Obama Will Not Tread

“The president is at peace determining that something is just a loser, that if he touches it, he’s going to make it worse. Whereas Kerry has the typical American engineering approach to things — there’s a problem, there’s a way to fix it, somehow.”

.. “I wouldn’t rule out the idea that Kerry has the same intellectual view of it as Obama but feels his role as secretary of state is to try anyway,” said Paul R. Pillar, a scholar at Georgetown University and retired senior C.I.A. official.