Washington (AFP) – The trouble with setting ambitious deadlines, especially in the unpredictable world of high-stakes foreign diplomacy, is that you run the risk of very public failure.Last year, top US diplomat John Kerry gave himself and the Obama administration several lofty goals, any of which would have been a ground-breaking achievement.Here is how they panned out and why, as Kerry prepares this week for his first foreign trip of 2015, his diplomatic in-tray is not getting any smaller.MIDDLE EAST PEACE Within a few months of taking over as US secretary of state in 2013, Kerry had persuaded the Israelis …read more
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