Saturday, December 16, 2006
Posted by:
Kevin McCullough
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2:10 PM
Talk to them, meet with them, campaign for them - he's done it all before so what's the difference? He's John Kerry - and he's "got a plan."
The Massachusetts Democrat said his visit to Syria was "a fact-finding mission" to explore "what might or might not affect behavior with respect to Hezbollah, Lebanon, Israel and Iraq, where in each of those cases Syria is playing a role."
"Dialogue is an important thing. It's very hard to move the ball if you don't know firsthand what people's needs are, what their own perceptions are," Kerry said in an interview with The Associated Press and several other journalists in Cairo.
Kerry said he was "willing" to go to Iran for talks but had no current plans to do so.