From Boston.com:

WASHINGTON – Senator John F. Kerry was named chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee yesterday, pledging to use his stewardship of the influential panel to strengthen American interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan, help end the war in Iraq, and craft solutions to the climate change crisis.

The Massachusetts Democrat is already on an extended tour of trouble spots that will probably consume the foreign policy attention of President-elect Barack Obama. Kerry met yesterday with leaders in Pakistan and India, trying to ease tensions between the two nuclear powers over the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

He next goes to Afghanistan, where Obama wants to deploy thousands of additional troops to fight the war on terrorism. The first stop on Kerry’s itinerary, which began over the weekend, was the Republic of Georgia, the front line in Russia’s more aggressive stance against the West. On Sunday, he and Obama talked about a global warming conference in Poland that Kerry attended. [full article here]

Of course, let’s not forget everything that we know about John Kerry, which you can learn in this excellent documentary entitled Stolen Honor:

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