Ed Morrissey
Hot Air
4/9/2014
Say, remember when these two were such good friends that each was rumored to be on the other’s short list for running mate? Good times, good times. Yesterday on Capitol Hill, John Kerry and John McCain threw rhetorical punches at each other that had McCain talking about twigs, and Kerry talking about the table used in the Vietnam peace talks. The sparring went on for several minutes, with McCain warning Kerry that he’s about to hit a “trifecta” of foreign-policy failures:
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Tuesday accused Secretary of State John Kerry of presiding over a “trifecta” of foreign policy disasters.
McCain lambasted his former Senate colleague at a hearing in which Kerry faced wide-ranging criticism about the administration’s handling of crises in the Middle East and Ukraine.
“I think you’re about to hit the trifecta,” McCain declared.
“Geneva II [a Syrian peace meeting] was a total collapse, as I predicted to you that it would be. … The Israeli-Palestinian talks, even though you may drag them out for a while, are finished,” McCain said. “And I predict to you that, even though we gave the Iranians the right to enrich, which is unbelievable, that those talks will collapse too.”
Kerry hit back: “It’s interesting that you declare it dead, but the Israelis and the Palestinians don’t declare it dead,” Kerry said of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
“We’ll see,” McCain interrupted.
“Well, yeah, we will see,” Kerry shot back.
“It has stopped. It has stopped. Recognize reality,” McCain retorted…
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