If this report is true, it is abysmal management on Obama’s part to even send these guys over there. Anybody who manages people knows you don’t let their efforts fragment, you don’t let your mission dissipate, you minimize the number of individuals involved in any given task of persuasion — all because it is notoriously difficult to keep individuals on message, and it is pro forma for the other side to look for cracks in your team and try to leverage them into canyons.
It may or not be true, what McCain says (he is a feckless boob, after all) but the entire idea is stupid.
You have a secretary of State. You do not weaken his voice by adding other voices. You signal to the other side that this is your negotiator, there are no others, he speaks with the endorsement from the highest levels, and then you hone the message and the tactics down to where your negotiator knows exactly how to zig and zag under all possible pressures — and you shut everybody else on your side up.
(I’m CEO of a medium size company. I’ve made enough mistakes to speak with authority about them.)
Assuming that Obama even knows what is taking place, who the participants are, and that he even cares...
It’s not crazy if you have very different goals.
He managed to make them look like fools .
By sending Kerry in to say something else now it makes the two Republican kooks look very guilty of conspiring with the muslim brotherhood.
Obama is shifting the blame for what he has done on the Republicans.