One can't help but wonder if it even enters into Kerry's mind that in trying to force Israel into a ceasefire before the completion of its military goals you're essentially allowing yourself to be played by Hamas, a terrorist organization that wouldn't think twice about exterminating the Jewish people had they the opportunity, at the expense of Israel's security needs - you're rewarding the mindset and tactics of Islamist terror and penalizing, helping to delegitimize the fundamental security needs of a democracy and key ally - I mean, it confounds common sense to imagine that the thought doesn't occur to him - and yet he carries on all the same. Clinical psychologists should come up with a name for this kind of pathology - or we can just keep calling it liberalism.