he wasn t happy about it. isn t it great in israel? you ve been over there and i ve been over there, you can actually have free speech over there on these topics, you can have different opinions. i get the sense here people are more catholic than the pope. they have to be more hawkish than even the massad chief of israel, and there s very little political space for barack obama or john kerry to say, you know, we can do everything imaginable, everything possible, to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon, but if they do get a nuclear weapon, we ll have to figure out how to deal with that best at the time. that would not be good enough for most people here and they d be lam basted for being weak and dovish and so i understand why they use that rhetoric. the problem is, when you use that rhetoric, sometimes it boxes you into a corner and you re left with no good choices. well said. more now from my interview with president carter when i asked him about hillary clinton. let s wat