John Kerry

I trust their good intentions and their intelligence. And that also to the extent that I can trust somebody I do not know personally. Anybody can make wrong calls. And as I said in the OP, half (probably more than half...) of me SCREAMS that this is all wrong. But when I listen to Kerry or when I read the article I posted above, I become almost convinced... at least for a while.

My feeling, for the extremely little that it's worth, is that Kerry really means most of what he says about this whole issue. I watched most of the Senate hearing, snippets of the House one, watched the interview with Chris hayes yesterday... I think that he really thinks, rightly or wrongly, I have no idea, that this has the potential to turn into a Munich moment.

As to the Rs - saw an tweet earlier (you turned me into Tweeter if you remember, several years ago ), I do not remember the exact wording, but something along the lines of one of Obama's major achievements will prove to be having turned Rs into peacenicks.