A new Marshall Plan would backfire.
Secretary of State John Kerry left a major policy suggestion for his successor. “I believe we need urgently a new Marshall Plan, which is focused on the most critical states in the world in certain locations, particularly Middle East, South Africa, South Central Asia,” he said at a January 10 conference at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. Kerry added that, “There are about a billion-and-a-half children in the world under the age of fifteen and about 100 million of them will not go to school. That is a problem for all of us.” This suggestion reveals that Kerry has a big heart and also that the State Department urgently needs more sociologists and anthropologists, and fewer well-meaning visionaries.
