John Kerry actually said...

I would hope that we just have a vote, and let democracy decide whether or not the Senate will say that Roberta Jacobson should go to Mexico...

But I know that this is the best way to try to end the war, and it is the only alternative available to us, if, indeed, we are going to have...

the absence of diplomatic effort is almost a guarantee of failure.

It would be a gross miscarriage of justice, if that happened.