McCain: Rebels fighting Assad feel abandoned by US

[KamaAina]

http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-politics/20130911/US-United-States-Syria-McCain/

Sen. John McCain said Wednesday he worries that the cause of rebels fighting Syria's President Bashar Assad has been obscured in the rapid-fire military and diplomatic events following a chemical weapons attack near Damascus.

"I feel very badly for my friends in the Free Syrian Army today," McCain said.

The Arizona Republican said that he is not against negotiating to defuse the chemical weapons issue, but he also said, "There's nothing that will drive Syrians more into the hands of extremists than to feel they have been abandoned by the West."

One of the persistent questions about U.S. policy in war-ravaged Syria is to what extent the terrorist network al-Qaida is involved in the efforts to end Assad's rule. McCain said President Barack Obama should have acted more forcefully against Assad many months ago.

There are casualties on the battlefield! Quick! Call the...

[sufrommich]

1. Good. nt

[Crimson76]

3. Damn you

I was going to post that.

[sufrommich]

4. Well,I was going to add a picture

of grouchy cat,so if you want to one up me,there you go.

[burnsei sensei]

14. +1

[Myrina]

2. Anytime you want to suit up, Mr. McCain ...

.. I hear you flew a Navy jet once upon a time ...

[KamaAina]

8. If he really wanted to help the rebels

he'd fly for the Syrian air force.

[durablend]

12. He could wipe out their whole air force

Without our even having to lift a finger!

[Drale]

11. I don't want him anywhere near U.S. Military Equipment

We spent way to much on those planes to let John "Hot-Shot" McCain burn another Aircraft carrier to the hull.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. McCain sure has a lot of friends.

[joeybee12]

6. The rebels are the extremists, you festering pile of donkey dung...nt

[Scuba]

7. Me too, John.

[tularetom]

9. He feels very badly for his friends in al Qaeda today

Why anybody gives a rats ass what this dbag thinks is beyond me.

[KamaAina]

10. Actually I think it's the other rebel factions that are al-Qaeda

not the Free Syrian Army.

It is, however, disconcerting, to say the least, that a senior U.S. Senator has "friends" in a rebel faction in a civil war.

[burnsei sensei]

13. Your friends, Mr. McCain, not mine.

My eyes are dry, and I'm sick of war.
So shove it up your ass and retire, as you should have twenty years ago!

[FarCenter]

15. Their little ploy didn't work.

[sibelian]

18. Shush.

Don't spoil it.

[Comrade Grumpy]

16. Sorry. It's not our obligation to go save their asses.

[JI7]

17. i think it's good if all sides get the message that this isn't about taking sides

as much as being opposed to certain cruel acts . and that would apply to any side which did it.

[EC]

19. Old man should not have made promises

he can't keep.

[ocpagu]

20. Oh...

"I feel very badly for my friends in the Free Syrian Army today," McCain said. "

His friends?



Birds of a feather, indeed.

[GeorgeGist]

21. Honestly, is this President Obama's plan to have Sen. McCain committed?