US Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman said it was time to provide weaponry to Syria's opposition, as they expressed disgust over a massacre last week blamed on government forces.
US Senator John McCain speaks as Senator Joseph Lieberman looks on during a press conferences at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur
The Telegraph
9:30AM BST 31 May 2012
"It's time to act. It's time to give the Syrian opposition the weapons in order to defend themselves. It's not a fair fight," Sen McCain told reporters in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur.
Sen McCain attacked Russia and China for opposing aggressive action on Syria, and President Barack Obama - who defeated him in the 2008 election - for not acting more forcefully on the issue.
"It is shameful that the United Nations Security Council should again be hindered by Russia and China by their vetoes for any significant action against Syria," he said.
"It is also embarrassing that the United States of America refuses to show leadership and come to the aid of the Syrian people."
Sen Lieberman, an Independent Democrat, said: "In my opinion this will not get better until the rest of the world at least gives the arms to the Syrian freedom fighters with which they can defend themselves and their families."
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The senators, who are regarded as foreign policy “hawks” in Washington, expressed their "repugnance and anger and disgust at the behaviour of Bashar al-Assad and the recent massacre of innocent women and children".
A massacre last week in which 108 people, mainly women and children, were killed in the central region of Houla, has caused international outrage but so far few signals that more aid will be sent to the rebels.
Many Western governments ordered out senior Syrian diplomats in an apparently coordinated protest at the Houla killings, but Russia criticised the ejections as "counter-productive".
UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan left Damascus this week with no apparent concessions from the Syrian leader.
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