Your Gaggler is surprised this isn’t getting more attention: In an interview with USA Today, Sen. John Kerry trashed the Obama administration’s plan for dealing with Pakistan, calling it “not a real strategy.” Kerry, who just returned from Pakistan, says the country is “in a moment of peril” and “there is not in place yet an adequate policy or plan to deal with it.” And this comes from one of Obama’s most vocal supporters during the campaign and someone who was rumored to be on the short list for Secretary of State. Ouch. As the paper notes, Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was way more positive about Obama’s Afghan/Pakistan plan when it was unveiled last month. Back then, Kerry called it “realistic and bold.” What changed? For one, Kerry doesn’t think the counterinsurgency strategy is entirely working.  It looks like he also got an earful from someone during his trip about Obama’s decision to deal with both Afghanistan and Pakistan together, as opposed to separately. He’s asking the adminstration to stop using the term “Af/Pak.” The governments in question, Kerry says, “don’t see the linkage” and find it insulting.

**UPDATE**: Kerry spokesman Fred Jones tells the Gaggle that Kerry’s comments about Obama’s Pakistan plan were “misconstrued” in the USA Today report. What Kerry meant, Jones says, is that the administration’s Pakistan policy needs to be more “comprehensive” and that “many more details need to be fleshed out.” “In no way was he disparaging the administration or the president,” Jones says. “He wasn’t trying to imply there’s no plan, only that there needs to be a more comprehensive one. More details need to be figured out, and he is working closely with the administration to do that."