It warms my heart to see someone in Congress with a ‘D’ besides their name who maybe, just maybe, understands that terrorists are America’s real enemies and neither former Presidents nor private citizens should attempt to conduct ad hoc foreign policy:
“Jimmy Carter’s view of the forces at work in the Middle East and how he likes to attribute blame and responsibility is so warped, to my way of thinking, that I’m skeptical of any initiative he undertakes.” — Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, on the former president’s decision to meet with top officials of Hamas during his trip to Damascus