WORLD_ McCain: US should form 'coalition of the willing' to aid Syrian rebels

McCain: US should form 'coalition of the willing' to aid Syrian rebels

By Geneva Sands - 07/20/12 10:13 AM ET

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said the United States should form a "coalition of the willing" to act on Syria.

"The longer this lasts, the more brutal, the more massacres, the more brutality and the more likelihood that these extremist elements enter in, the more likelihood that these chemical weapons stockpiles that [Syrian President] Bashar Assad has gets in the wrong hands or maybe even used," said McCain on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight"

McCain suggested Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Turkey and Libya as possible partners in the effort to stop the continuing violence in Syria and support the groups trying to oust Assad.

"It would be in our interest," he added.

Russia and China on Thursday vetoed a United Nations resolution calling for sanctions against the Syria's government for the third time since revolt broke out 17 months ago.

On MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday, McCain also called for the establishment of a "safe zone" on the Turkish border, as well as providing arms directly to rebel groups.

"We can show American leadership and get a coalition of the willing, establish a safe area where they could train and equip and stop the massacre that's going on," he said on MSNBC.

The Arizona senator said that other countries in the region are waiting for American leadership to act.

He stressed that he's not calling for U.S. military intervention on the ground in Syria, saying that it "has not to do with a single American boot on the ground."

"Our interests are our values and our values are our interests. It is our values that we do what we can and we can't everywhere in the world, and we can't always do it — help people who are struggling for freedom and democracy," he said.


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2 Comments



Sam 4 hours ago

In 2007 Mitt Romney criticized Democrat Barack Obama's expressed intention as President to go enter Pakistan to kill al Qaeda terrorists even without that country's permission, saying "I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of ours... I don't think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends to our effort.” He called Obama’s statement about acting in Pakistan without Pakistani participation "ill-timed" and "ill-considered." http://in.reuters.com/article/....

Bush did NOTHING to try to catch OBL. He turned down the operatives who asked for reinforcements when they thought they had OBL pinned down in Tora Bora, then he closed down their Alec unit and shipped them to Iraq to prosecute his illegal war based on lies.

Voters need to keep the Republicans as far away as possible from running our foreign policy and our national defense. Their VP designate Marco Rubio said, "I always start by reminding people that what happens all over the world is our business." http://abcnews.go.com/Politics.... He also rattled rockets at Russia, which has hundreds of nuclear missiles pointed at us, and he WILL do the same to the Chinese.

Republican George W. Bush disastrously fostered an atmosphere of unspeakable brutality by authorizing the criminal torture of detainees http://www.politico.com/news/s... resulting in fiascos such as Abu Ghraib and atrocities this year that included cutting off fingers, peeing on Afghans, desecrating their scriptures and the slaughter of 17 civilians by one U.S. soldier.

Bush wasted $ trillions of our treasure and tens of thousands of American lives including 4,400 deaths, diverting our forces from Afghanistan and from the search for Osama Bin Laden and instead sent them to murder hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men, women and children, in the process converting that country from Iran's worst enemy into its closest ally.

An example of the Bush lies was reported by Sen. Bill Nelson who said that the Bush administration misled his chamber before a vote to authorize the war when they told him intelligence showed Saddam had unmanned aircraft that could deliver chemical weapons to U.S. cities. As it turned out, there was never any such report in U.S. intelligence files. http://www.globalsecurity.org/....

And "In a classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared before the Iraq war, the CIA hedged its judgments about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, pointing up the limits of its knowledge. But in the unclassified version of the NIE -- the so-called white paper cited by the Bush administration in making its case for war -- those carefully qualified conclusions were turned into blunt assertions of fact, according to the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on prewar intelligence." http://articles.latimes.com/20....

Senior professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Fulton Armstrong wrote, "When we on the National Intelligence Council finally got a full read of the National Intelligence Estimate on WMDs, after its publication, a couple of us expressed grave reservations about the fatally weak evidence and the obsessively one-sided interpretation of what shreds of information it contained." http://www.nybooks.com/article....

Then Bush nominated a crook with mob links who is now in prison for corruption to run our Homeland Security. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02....

Also, Congress had to intervene and stop Bush when he tried to hand over our most important ports to a Muslim nation. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11....




Andre Leonard 6 hours ago

Who cares what John McCain says, if there is a coalition, he needs to be leading the volunteer brigade and he should enlist Joe Lieberman, Buck McKeon and Lindsay Graham to promote their occupy the middle east peace plan.

Sad thing about John saber-rattling McCain, is he always wants to engage in military intervention. No one wanted him for president because they knew we would be in more conflicts than we could handle.

Most of wish Jon Kyl, would take McCain with him into retirement. 72 years old, burned out, no new ideas, could even help his own state on the immigration issue. Left a woman Governor Jan Brewer to all the heavy lifting.


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