Newly-installed Secretary of State John Kerry recently returned from his first foreign trip, which was described as a “listening tour.” During the eleven-day, nine-nation swing through Europe and the Middle East, Kerry got an earful about U.S. policy toward Syria, Egypt, and Iran, while signaling increased U.S. attention to Europe. In a sense, Kerry’s honeymoon trip exhibited “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.”
