Meeting A’Jad without Preconditions

Published September 27, 2008 1:36am ET



McCain hammered Obama on Obama’s pledge to meet the leaders of Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Syria, and Cuba without precondition; Obama responded that Kissinger supports this policy. Goldfarb points out that Kissinger actually said: “I actually have preferred doing it at the secretary of state level” McCain was very strong on this point, though I wish he would have shot back that Obama’s own running mate thinks this policy is “naive.”