McCain And Kerry: When's The Fistfight
When two decorated Vietnam War veterans, both winners of their parties’ nominations for president — and both losers of the general election — square off over differences in foreign policy, a war of political nerve might ensue.
It did at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Secretary of State John Kerry confronted Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona over the Obama administration’s negotiations on three fronts of a restive world.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for president and silver- and bronze-star veteran of swift boat command in Vietnam, and McCain, the 2008 Republican nominee for president who flew bombers over Vietnam and spent five-and-a-half years in a Hanoi prisoner-of-war camp, dropped any decorum that two honored Naval officers might afford one another.
“I think you’re about to hit the trifecta,” McCain sardonically told Kerry yesterday of his personal efforts to negotiate a truce in Syria, a nuclear deal with Iran and peace in the Middle East. “Geneva II was a total collapse, as I predicted to you that it would be.”
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