Steve Israel: “I wish we understood those lessons here in the United States Congress. Because if you take a look at those lessons of…”

“I wish we understood those lessons here in the United States Congress. Because if you take a look at those lessons of history, the Cold War, The Space Raid, World War II, all of the great challenges that confronted Congresses in the past have been solved with bipartisan dialogue. Think about the Cold War. It was the bipartisanship, the bipartisan approach of a John F. Kennedy and a Richard Nixon and that helped end the Cold War. Think about World War II. It was the political leadership of FDR and Harry Truman and the military leadership of Dwight D. Eisenhower. There was always great bipartisanship with respect to enormous foreign policy challenges in our country. Democrats and Republicans found ways to talk to one another. I guess there was a saying that 'politics stops at the water's edge.' One of the concerns I have is that we have kind of lost that sense, that we have made foreign policy and made issues of war and peace partisan issues.”