Catholic here. Can't tell Rick Warren from Warren Zevon, but I usually don't take the Syrian news media as a credible source of quoting anyone on anything.
The point is not whether what SANA said was accurate (probably it wasn't) but that any authoritarian regime will gladly spin things to their own purpose. Warren allowed himself to be used, probably with the best of intentions (his poverty and AIDS work, peaceful relations, etc.)
We are supposed to negotiate with murderers, terrorists and the loon in Iran? I don't think so.
I usually don't take the Syrian news media as a credible source of quoting anyone on anything
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Exactly. Freepers never believe a word the MSM says until it comes to something like this. Don't be so quick to trash this man.