Anthony Weiner: “Well, I thank the gentleman. Very well put. I appreciate your leadership on this. I should point out whenever I come to…”

“Well, I thank the gentleman. Very well put. I appreciate your leadership on this. I should point out whenever I come to the floor, whether it be to make sense of our foreign policy as it relates to Saudi Arabia, you have been always been there trying to problem solve, trying to figure out the way we can use a lever. Before I yield to my friend from Iowa, you know, very often when we look at these stories on television, my neighbors say, well, why is it our problem? Why is it a United States problem? Why do we really care? It's far away. If you think about what's going on here, and I haven't pointed this out yet today, and, frankly, we all take it as an article of faith, we don't even think about it very much, there is really only one democracy on this map here. There is one democracy really fighting totalitarian regimes and terrorist exports, really, on behalf of all of us. I ask you to imagine this scenario. Imagine if this wasn't Hamas, but it was al Qaeda. If we knew this little piece of land here was controlled by al Qaeda we would say, of course, you have got to be in a well--well, Hamas is an adjunct of the same type of influence. Frankly, Israel is the only country, not only in this part of the world, but you can make a pretty good argument anywhere that is truly every day dealing with the ravages of terrorism. We were struck on that fateful day when my city was struck on September 11, 2001.…”