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SOUTHERN SHUNEH, Jordan — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that military action to protect civilians in Syria might be considered now that NATO’s air campaign in Libya is ending.
However, President Obama’s administration has made clear it has no appetite for military intervention in Syria — a close ally of Iran that sits on Israel’s border — and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton noted Sunday that the Syrian opposition has not called for such action as President Bashar Assad’s regime.
“Now that military operations in Libya are ending, there will be renewed focus on what practical military operations might be considered to protect civilian lives in Syria,” McCain said at the World Economic Forum in Jordan. “The Assad regime should not consider that it can get away with mass murder. Gadhafi made that mistake and it cost him everything,” he added, referring to ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi who was captured and killed last week by fighters loyal to the new government.
It was not clear whether the Republican senator from Arizona was referring to American or NATO military action against the Syrian regime, which has waged a 7-month crackdown on opposition protesters and killed about 3,000 people, according to the U.N.
However, international intervention, such as the NATO action in Libya that helped topple Gadhafi, is all but out of the question in Syria. Washington and its allies have shown little inclination for getting involved militarily in another Arab nation in turmoil. There also is real concern that Assad’s ouster would spread chaos around the region.
Most Syrian opposition groups, inside and outside Syria, also have said they oppose military intervention.
Could Iran be his agenda??
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“Their plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington has only reminded Americans of the threat posed by this regime, how it is killing Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporting violent groups across the region, destabilizing Arab countries, propping up the Assad regime, seeking nuclear weapons, trampling on the dignity of Iran’s people.”
I guess we have to wait to see if the US changes it's mind and decides to meddle, once again, in another country. The repercussions of going into Syria would be huge.
I guess we have to wait to see if the US changes it's mind and decides to meddle, once again, in another country. The repercussions of going into Syria would be huge.
I am astounded that the Warmongers and their financiers are so blatant about starting another chapter in their endless war to support their limitless greed.
As I said in another thread:
This appears to be the introduction to another chapter in the "Endless War" on somebody someplace. The Bankers, the Military high command, the Industrialists are all addicted to War on borrowed money. It is past time to cut these people off and make then do something useful with their money, bureaucrats and factories. Our country cannot afford to continue to feed their addiction to our money.
Senator McCain has lost all his honor being a paid shill for these corrupt bastards.
Absolutely. If "Bomb, bomb, Iran" McCain were the president right now, we would have been at full blown war with Libya a long time ago and likely never would have got qaddafi, not to mention at war with Iran. The right wing war machine would have been at full steam.
McCain is as clueless as Obama...more proof of how little choice there really was at the polls in '08.
We need to stay the hell out of 3rd world hellholes. There is nothing and no one worth the life of a young American soldier. Or putting the taxpayers further in debt.
You stated Amman, which is in Jordan. The news report you posted talks of Syria - with the report coming out of Amman. Which is it??
US pulled them from Syria, not Jordan.
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