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    McCain Wants to Arm Syrian Rebels

    McCain Wants to Arm Syrian Rebels

    Two U.S. senators said the United States should arm Syrian rebels, a plan that got a dubious reception from the top military brass and preceded a sharp warning from China's national paper that Western support could lead to a civil war. Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham said on Sunday that arming the Syrian opposition could, in turn, weaken Iran, which is supporting the Syrian government. "I believe there are ways to get weapons to the opposition without direct United States involvement," McCain said, according to The New York Times. Meanwhile, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said any decision to arm rebels there would be "premature" because it was not totally clear who they were. "I would challenge anyone to clearly identify for me the opposition movement in Syria at this point," Dempsey told CNN's Fareed Zakaria. China, a staunch supporter of the Syrian government, issued a warning in its national press on Monday, with a commentary on the front page of The People's Daily (a Communist Party mouthpiece), warning that "if Western countries continue to fully support Syria's opposition, then in the end a large-scale civil war will erupt and there will be no way to thus avoid the possibility of foreign armed intervention."

     

    39 comments

    • Bill Lee  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  3 mths ago
      John McCain and Lindsay Graham are both out of touch and not listening to "we the people". We are not the world's policeman. Let these barbaric Muslims fight their own wars.
    • Andrey  •  3 mths ago
      Putin is right! McCain is NUTS!
    • David Jones  •  Lisle, Illinois  •  3 mths ago
      I have said it before and I will say it again. The greatest threat to our National security has never been Islamic extremists but our politicians. Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham are classic example. Knowing what they know, they are still peddling war and more freaking debt. Could it be the reason they all hate Obama so much is because he doesn't bow down to their demands? We all know Bush was a puppet and Cheney was calling the shots. I think the Republicans became used to that and they expected Obama to toe the line as well. What a shame and McCain was just re-elected? Arizona, why?
    • William  •  Blackfoot, Idaho  •  3 mths ago
      McCain would arm grandma if he thought it would start a war.
    • V  •  3 mths ago
      War-monger.
    • Darkfinn  •  Gillette, Wyoming  •  3 mths ago
      Ol' warmonger McCain wants to restart the cold war. Guess he didn't get enough of it in Vietnam.
    • paul  •  3 mths ago
      Who hasn't he wanted to arm?
    • American Spirit  •  Aspen, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      after dumping the palin sewage into the spotlightno one will ever take mcCain - in the #$%$ - seriously
    • distraction  •  3 mths ago
      Oh yeah let`s have another libya where MANPADS are stolen and can be used against commercial airlines taken off or landing. Their muslims all they know is wars and misery,and besides that they hate us.McCain what weapons plants are in your district ?
    • dennisb  •  3 mths ago
      This is just what our country doesn't need another involvement with NO resolve. All this is going to do is put our tax payer's deeper in debt. It is time to start addressing the needs of the tax payer of the United States and quit spending money that will do nothing to sustain our economy with job growth.
    • Miz  •  3 mths ago
      We have nothing to gain here. Bolth sides Hate us. Its sad to see people die but we put our hands in this and when the rebels fail its just another musslim country that hates us. McCains war is not for us.
    • Suit of Flames  •  3 mths ago
      Old Macca, always wanting to make war on some people in a distant land. New rule: lose the presidential election, go away forever.
    • guess  •  3 mths ago
      this mc cain has either gotten senile or he came back from viet nam with some connections loose,i can't believe he keeps getting re elected in Arizona,ALMOST as bad as ried getting re elected in Nevada. we need to get these old fuzzy in the head politicians out of politics.
    • Wake Up  •  3 mths ago
      John, how do you plan to pay for this? I mean its okay to vote against the Democrats when they do it but then you would arm or bomb anything. John get help your anger continues to show in place of a rational plan.
    • .  •  Irvine, California  •  3 mths ago
      HES JUST GOING FOR THE ALL IMPORTANT SYRIAN VOTE.
    • Brian G  •  3 mths ago
      Every person in this great nation can rest assured that if Lindsay Graham said it, it's a bunch of f_cking horsesh!t.
    • Ken Warchal  •  New York, New York  •  3 mths ago
      Time for McCain to retire.
      • Robert 3 mths ago
        Retire to Spandau or the Hanoi Hilton
    • Private Joker  •  3 mths ago
      McAmnesty is the Military industrial complexes poster boy
    • SyntheticWine  •  3 mths ago
      Has this fool ever seen a military intervention he hasn't liked?
    • Michael  •  3 mths ago
      "I believe there are ways to get weapons to the opposition without direct United States involvement," .... but I'm sure they wouldn't think they came from us... If he had been elected we'd be in WW3 by now!
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