Is Syria an ally of America? No. Is Syria a threat to our few allies in the middle east? No again. So why bother getting involved in Syria’s problems? Oh that’s right. If some poor little Muslim country that can’t fight their own battles, warmongers like John McCain want to start bombing them. Isn’t it enough that our troops are getting killed in Afghanistan after Obama claimed he “calmed things down?” Isn’t it bad enough that Iraq seems to have having problems yet again since U.S. troops have been pulled out? Isn’t it bad enough the whole Iran/Israel fight is coming up soon? No, lets instead go help the Syrians. F*ck that.
Sen. John McCain on Monday became the first U.S. lawmaker to call for air strikes against the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad, putting the influential Arizona Republican in front of the Obama administration in calling for American troop involvement in the year-long struggle between the dictator and Syrian citizens.
“The time has come for a new policy,” McCain said in a Senate floor speech Monday afternoon in which he compared Syrian violence to war crimes in the Balkans and Russia’s annihilation of Grozny in Chechnya.