Every six months or so while I served as U.S. ambassador, Senator John McCain would stop in Israel for a visit.

The pattern was  usually the same. McCain would arrive at Ben-Gurion airport after  visiting U.S. troops in Afghanistan or Iraq. McCain traveled constantly,  perhaps more than any other Member of Congress, but no one ever accused  him of taking junkets to luxury garden spots. He wanted to be where the  action was, to stand with U.S. troops deployed overseas, to check in  with dissidents or newly established democracies, to support those  struggling against terrorists and tyrants.

He was usually  accompanied by his best friend in the Senate, Lindsey Graham, and, until  his retirement in 2013, Joe Lieberman. The three of them traveled so  frequently together that they became known in capitals around the world  as the Three Amigos.

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