Senators Carl Levin (D – MI) and John McCain (R – AZ), two of the top members of the Senate Armed Services Committee have issued a public letter to President Obama today urging him to immediately attack Syria with an eye toward a regime change that would put the Islamist-led rebels in power.
The letter says that the US could engage in “limited military options” more or less immediately, including air strikes against Syrian defensive systems and the conquest of a “safe zone” along the Syrian border.
The “safe zone” is being presented as a place for civilians to flee, but hawkish US officials has trumpeted it as a potential rebel base of operations as opposed to a non-combat zone for people trying to escape the civil war.
Sen. McCain has been calling for an attack on Syria, and indeed many other nations for years now, but Sen. Levin, the current chair of the Armed Services Committee, has only recently come on board with the war.
Both are citing unconfirmed claims of a chemical weapons strike in Syria as justification for an immediate US attack, even though officials concede that there almost certainly wasn’t such a strike in the first place.
What would America if congresspeople half way around the globe were demanding of their government attack the US? Let me guess, we'd drone bomb them, and their children. Here we have these two senile imbecils who don't represent any reasonable constituency inciting violence, war, and crimes against humanity.
What would America do if congresspeople half way around the globe were demanding of their government attack the US? Let me guess, we'd drone bomb them, and their children. Here we have these two senile imbecils who don't represent any reasonable constituency inciting violence, war, and crimes against humanity.
Every other "limited" us military operation is turned out to be permanent one since wwII.., Hitler fascism regime is defeated, USSR is no longer there but us militarism regime is still in Germany and Japan and Italy and occupying Balkan…., in reality USA is replacing both Hitler and USSR in term of occupation force even Europe political system is based on democracy.., at least it suppose to be.
McCain and his gang have a dangerous knee jerk reaction to every negative rumor coming out of Alexander's old empire. I wish they would shut up and quit putting us in danger.
I say put the boots of Senators McCain and Levin on the ground in Syria until the country is stable. They are such experts on how simple it all will be that I'm sure all will be peaceful in no time.
put the boots to them
Great idea: let's sponsor, arm, and place in power a radical Islamist government right next to Israel, one that is as devout and anti-Western as Iran, but with a major distinction: instead of being an enemy of Al Queda, it's an ally. A government that includes many proven, experienced, successful terrorists. What could possibly go wrong?
I think that John McCain should remove the "Mc" from his surname so that we could identify him as the true son of "Cain."
this is news???????
How did we allow these warmogers to take control of or national life?
Wankers.
WE know that the fifty billion CIA budget isn’t being used to dispense milk and honey to the worlds downtrodden . It is easy to sponser color revolutions ,etc to create conditions that will open opportunities for devious hidden agendas that almost always leed to violence, death and distruction. I am always impressed by the followers of Anti War by their ability to disect these different proposals that are constantly being put before us, not that we need be brillient to see thu them. I know how hard it is for Anti War readers to sit iddly by while such rubbish is so common. WE all know the difference from right and wrong but our politicions seem to have a problem there.
I made a comment and it was not posted so I made a repeat thinking I had beeb temporally knocked off line which happens with my computer,but told it was a repeat when the first one had’t yet been sent.
I made a comment and it was not posted so I made a repeat thinking I had beeb temporally knocked off line which happens with my computer,but told it was a repeat when the first one had’t yet been sent.The first two postsby Rick30 are repeats so what goes