“These people on the Republican side are just looking for the hot button thing: ‘Can we make Obama look weak on Iran? Can we try to suggest that he doesn’t really care about Israel?’ It’s all politics. It’s not a genuine desire to get it right. And I will contrast this with Richard Nixon, who I disagreed with in terms of his obsession with Communist issues and so on, but he was a serious man, who understood foreign policy. So when he debated John Kennedy and when he was president, his foreign policy was a genuine attempt to try and solve this and his normalization of relations with China was one of the greatest accomplishments of our time. Not a single GOP candidate today has a serious understanding—or in the case of Newt Gingrich they have an intentionally false understanding—of the situation.” - Russ Feingold
