John McCain was on Face the Nation today, getting his neocon on, discussing the next steps that needed to be taken in Syria — dealing with Assad.
He approved of the President’s strikes — calling it a good ‘first step.’ But, he wants MOAR — accusing both Syria and Russia of war crimes, in addition to blaming Assad for the rise of ISIS. You cannot make this stuff up.
“And I think it was important. But it is now vitally important we develop a strategy, we put that strategy in motion, and we bring about peace in the region. And that obviously means that there has to be a cessation of these war crimes.
John, dropping, using chemical weapons is a war crime, but starving thousands of people in prisons is also. Barrel bombs which indiscriminately kill innocent civilians, precision strikes done by Russians on hospitals in Aleppo are war crimes as well.
So there’s a lot of war crimes that are taking place. And another area — aspect of this that I do not agree with the secretary is that you have to just concentrate on ISIS.
We will take Mosul. We will take Raqqa. And we better have strategies as to how to handle those places once we have won it. But they are not disconnected from Bashar al-Assad and the al Qaeda and the war crimes that have been taking place.
You can’t — to a large degree, Bashar al-Assad, by polarizing the Syrian people, have also given rise to ISIS and al Qaeda. So they are both connected. And I believe that the United States of America can address both at the same time. We can walk and chew gum.
We have the capability to do both. And, yes, we want a negotiated settlement, but the only way that that will happen is if it is not in their interests to continue what they have been successful at for over eight years. And that is why I thought, symbolically and psychologically, the president’s action was very important, but now we better follow it up. And, by the way, we should have cratered the runways.”
Seemingly ignoring the fact that ISIS and US backed ‘rebels’ in the region are responsible for the majority of civilian deaths in Syria, McCain carried on as if Assad was merely bombing civilians and not actually in the midst of a long, drawn out, civil war — which was started by ISIS. McCain wants the U.S. military to set up a ‘safe zone’ in Northern Syria.
“And also, when you see these crimes that are being committed, they are horrifying. John, I also believe that a grieving mother whose child has been killed isn’t too concerned whether it is a chemical weapon or a barrel bomb. He is still slaughtering people. And we may stop the chemical weapons.
But we have also got to stop the other indiscriminate, inhumane war crimes that are being committed as well. And that means, obviously, trying to set up some kind of safe zone, so that these refugees can have a place where they can be. And, also, that would help with the refugee flow issue.”
In response to President Trump’s strike on the Syrian airbase, McCain thinks we should’ve done more.
“Well, I think the fact that we acted was very important, and I support the president’s action.
And I have been told that there was some recommendations to take out all six places that the Syrian air force operates out of. But now that they are flying again, basically, within 36 hours is not a good signal.
But I would point out, taking out their — all their support facilities doesn’t let them fly with any consistency. But it — the signal that they are able to fly almost right away out of the same facility indicates that I don’t think we did as thorough enough job, which would have been cratering the runways.
McCain is fucking crazy. pic.twitter.com/t7bzYJUD4I
— The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) April 10, 2017
And somebody will say, well, then they can fill in the runways. Yes. And we can crater them again too.”
Has it ever dawned on McCain and the other neocons in America that maybe, just maybe, Russia would respond to our attacks on their ally, in an effort to protect Russian soliders on the ground? Has the concept of ‘mutually assured destruction’ gone by wayside somehow — the ultimate quagmire which has kept America out of a war with Russia for the past 70 years?
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The whole thing seems suspicious to me. I think Trump cut a deal with Israel and the Sunni Arab states to evict Iran from Syria. That’s what this is all about.
Next up will be a hyped up “peace” conference between Israel, the Palestinians and the Sunni Arab nations to distract the World from the impending disaster that will be Syrian regime change. Once the shine of the fake peace conference wears off, all we’ll be left with is Syria becoming a failed state just like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Any asshole that clicks on anything else but thumbs up for stocksnblondes comment deserves to die for Israel. Shalom.
You’d make a fine North Korean dictator.
nutjob
please don’t interrupt when adults are in middle of conversation
They certainly want the friends of Iran out, but it cannot go as you lay out. Russia going to give up their friends in Syria …nor give up their port in Tartus.
Standing up to our bullying is what made Putin popular at home. And he likely has figured out that tucking tail would mean the opposite for him.
Putin is our last hope that this will not escalate into hot HOT war. Trump is a turncoat. Trump got elected on the premise that he will stand up to the establishment, get out of ME and focus on infrastructure, health care, wall, domestic issues. Instead, the World got Crooked Hillery on steroids. To make money in markets, one has to invest in and bet on anything that will help blow up ME to pieces for the benefit of SA and Israel.
The US has no stomach for more nonsense in the middle east and we are no threat to Russia. We are not even willing to protect and guard our own country anymore, much less go to war for strangers. These assholes are certainly going to try again though.
Can we drone this guy McCain?
“Seemingly ignoring the fact that ISIS and US backed ‘rebels’ in the region are responsible for the majority of civilian deaths in Syria, McCain carried on as if Assad was merely bombing civilians and not actually in the midst of a long, drawn out, civil war — which was started by ISIS.”
Fly, I am sure that that is what your favorite “news sites”– i.e. Russian propaganda sites– say. But none of it is true. Of course Russian propaganda is going to make Assad out to be some angel, because he’s their ally that they want to get their pipeline from, or their access to a Mediterranean port from. But it’s bs.
Assad is the one butchering his people. The Syrian rebels are trying to fight back and get rid of him, but Russia is propping Assad up. ISIS is, of course, a terrorist group. And Syrians are so afraid that Assad, backed by Russia, will keep slaughtering them and destroying their cities, that they will even accept help from ISIS to fight Assad. They are between a rock and a hard place.
That being said, there is no reason why we should be intervening, because it is not a matter of our own national interests. And also because whenever we invade countries in the M.E. that we know very little about, we eff things up for them far more than they were effed up to begin with.
Although Assad is outrageously horrendous, if we took him down, the power vacuum created would likely be filled by somebody worse e.g. some ISIS leader in Syria.
Ha, ha, ha. Fly is a Russian spy.
ISIS is a CIA inspired group, armed to the teeth with Libyan and Iraqi weapons, which were ours.
Failure to understand that leaves you incapable of carrying out an intelligent discussion about the region. If you don’t believe me, do some investigating into who the ‘moderate rebels’ are that we support in Syria.
Is head cutting ISIS an afterthought to these idiots?!
The also sell girls and light people on fire too. It all around barbarity!
https://youtu.be/NsOts8_Prp0
Guys,
I told you 3 years ago proxy war in Syria
I told you 1 year ago too late for any outsider
govt was taken 08 sealed in 12
They’ll stop when the World’s population is reduced to less than 1/2 billion
Love it when people say shit like “bring peace to the region”…
Those fuckers have been fighting each other non-stop, tooth-and-nail, for, literally, millennia.
Even if their were no Western powers fucking around town, they’d still be fighting each other over which successor to their dead prophet, peace be upon him, was mo-legit den da rest. Like some pissy estate battle that’s raged for near-on 1500 years now.
Possible moral to my babblings?: don’t neglect your estate planning needs… accept your destiny and write a will, pussy.
er, there