Kerry to Senate panel: 'I may fail. I don't care'
Senate Foreign Relations Committee members pressed US Secretary of State John Kerry on US policy in the Middle East.
Secretary of State John Kerry returned from a grueling 12-day trip to Europe and the Middle East only to have his record of diplomatic activism get a bipartisan bashing Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
Kerry's appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was his first since Syrian and Israeli-Palestinian peace talks floundered even as nuclear negotiations with Iran have taken off.
While ostensibly gathered to hear Kerry pitch his budget request for fiscal year 2015, lawmakers pressed him on the three issues where they've been most critical of the Obama administration's efforts.
"I think you're about to hit the trifecta," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. "Geneva II 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. And I predict that even though we gave the Iranians the right to enrich, which is unbelievable, those talks will collapse, too."
