Kerry: Now it is more difficult for US to make decisions than during Cold War

10:14, 23.04.2014 1 min read

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that during the Cold War it was easier for Washington to make decisions than in the current situation.

"During the Cold War, it actually – it may not have seemed so at the time, obviously, to great leaders, but it was easier than it is today – simpler is maybe a way to put it. The choices were less varied, less complicated, more stark, more clear: communism, democracy; West, East; the Iron Curtain, the great line of divide," Kerry said at the State Department on Tuesday.

He said that in the 1950s and 1960s "we could make really bad decisions and still win because we were pretty much the sole dominant economic and military power around."

"That's not true anymore," Kerry said.