CLAUDIA ROSETT IS DESPERATELY SEEKING U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TRIUMPHS in her year-in-review article: “It sounds like a simple assignment: list 10 U.S. foreign policy triumphs of 2015. OK, make that five. Can we maybe find three? Two? After all, President Obama has pivoted to foreign policy as the centerpiece of his second term, and Secretary of State John Kerry has logged a gazillion miles of diplomatic travel, punctuated by marathon talks, capped by ‘historic’ deals. So, how’s that working out?”

Just swimmingly, if you ask Kerry or others at the State Department. Those of us in the real world though have a far grimmer view of this administration’s “accomplishments,” sadly.