Senator Menendez singing a different tune than Secretary Global-Test

In his speech to AIPAC, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chair parts ways with regime orthodoxy on Iran's nuke program:

Menendez also outlined a starkly different goal than Kerry had described. Whereas Kerry said that the Obama administration would ensure that Iran did not achieve a nuclear "weapon" or "bomb," Menendez declared that the goal of current diplomacy ought to be "making sure they [Iran] never have the ability to create one nuclear bomb," and ensuring that Iran would "dismantle" its program, not merely stopping short of weaponization.

He went on to explain the context for Iran's nuclear ambitions. "The fact is, Iran's nuclear aspirations did not materialize overnight," he said, adding that the Iranian regime saw the achievement of nuclear weapons as "fundamental to its existence." Iran, he noted, was engaged in support for terror across the region, and backing the Syrian dictatorship. "This is not an opportunity to re-engage with Iran," Menendez said, but confronting it.

Menendez closed by defending Israel's right to exist based on the Biblical connection of Jews to the Land of Israel.

There are only a few people who can imbibe enough Kool-Aid to play patty-cake with the mullahs.  Menendez isn't one of them, apparently.