Lord Of The Tarp John McCain wants us to protect the Syrian people with US military.
This guy has never met a war he didn’t like and in my opinion is about as attached to reality as President Obama. Remember, this is the same John McCain who recently flew to Cairo with John ‘ketchup’ Kerry to open their stock market while the al-qaeda flag flys above the state capital, and the Muslim Brotherhood takes charge. Doofus.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) — The United States should move quickly to protect Syrian dissidents, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Thursday.
McCain, the senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a CBS interview possible steps include no-fly zones or safe corridors allowing them to get out of the country but said the United States should not send troops in.
“The United States should play a very important role … along with other nations,” McCain said. “Look, they’re massacring their people.”
McCain said the Arab League “has been very good on this” and is likely to be a good ally in the effort.
President Bashar Assad has stepped up the government assault on the city of Homs, the largest attack since he began cracking down on protesters last year.
Obama administration officials vowed Wednesday to gather “friends and allies who support the Syrian people,” a promise echoed by Turkey.
“In the coming days we will continue our very active discussions with friends and allies who support the Syrian people, along with the opposition Syrian National Council, to crystallize the international community’s next steps in that effort to halt the slaughter of the Syrian people and to pursue that transition to democracy,” White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters Wednesday.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the friends and allies would seek to tighten sanctions on the regime of President Bashar Assad and to get humanitarian aid to besieged Syrians.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton initiated a “friends of a democratic Syria” theme Sunday — a day after Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution pressing Assad to step aside — when she said the Obama administration would now “work with the friends of a democratic Syria around the world to support the opposition’s peaceful, political plans for change.” (read more)