Secretary Global-Test gets the respect he deserves

 . . . from the nation's top foreign-policy scholars - to the torment of the MSM:

Al Kamen does not sound very happy about these results over at the Washington Post. He seems equally peeved by the survey’s choice of most effective Secretary of State:

Secretary of State John Kerry, working diligently on some extraordinarily difficult foreign policy issues — China, neo-Soviet Russia, Islamic State, Iran, etc — isn’t getting even a tiny bit of credit these days from the tweedy, elbow-patched, wing-chair crowd.

Foreign Policy magazine this week announced the results of its 2014  Ivory Tower survey of 1,615 international relations scholars from 1,375 U.S. colleges.

One question they were asked was: “Who was the most effective U.S. secretary of state of the past 50 years?

The winner? Nobel Peace Prize winner Henry A. Kissinger, who was secretary for four years during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Since the Vietnam thing didn’t turn out so well, the scholars must have been grading him on openings to China and the Soviet Union?

Kissinger got 32.21 percent of the vote, which is extraordinary in such a large field.

“Don’t Know” came in a relatively distinct second, with 18.32 percent.

Is there any chance we could get Don’t Know to take over as Secretary of State immediately? What else is Don’t Know doing these days, besides making the odd guest appearance in “Family Circus” cartoons?

Kamen defies the wisdom of these tweedy solons by picking James Baker, their Number Three choice, as the true Most Effective Secretary of State. Rounding out the top five are Medeleine Albright (who waltzed North Korea into the nuclear club) and Hillary Clinton (who did absolutely nothing except rack up frequent-flyer miles, lie about Benghazi, make a laughingstock of the United States with her “Russian reset button” tomfoolery, and proclaim Bashar Assad to be a reformer.)

This Kamen is a real Ellsworth M. Toohey.  He apparently likes his iconic figures good 'n' mediocre.