U.S. Sen. John McCain does not need diplomacy or international law, as he repeatedly calls for military air strikes on Assad’s Syrian regime. Meanwhile thousands of Syrian refugees flee to Lebanon.
Washington / NationalTurk – Former US presidential candidate Senator John Mccain does not need diplomacy, or international law. The Republican senator became the first US senator to publicly call for a US-led military strike on Syria in order to halt the nearly year-long conflict of unrest, uprising, protests and killings in Bashar Al Assad -led Syria.
John Mccain : US Air Strike is needed to topple and expel Assad from Syria
Taking the Senate floor, Republican Senator John McCain stated there will be no UN mandate for the air strikes he deems the only way to stop the violence – but that a mandate isn’t necessary. All the Arizona senator needs, apparently, is a somewhat dubious – and violent – precedent. ‘NATO took military action to save Kosovo in 1999 without formal U.N. authorization. There is no reason why the Arab League, or NATO, or a leading coalition within the Friends of Syria contact group, or all of them speaking in unison, could not provide a similar international mandate for military measures to save Syria today’, he declared.
John McCain is also the GOP’s senior member on the Senate Armed Services Committee and it’s no suprise that he urged the U.S. to launch military airstrikes against Syrian president Bashar Assad’s regime to force him out of power. He also added in his speech on Capitol Hill that the U.S. should arm Syrian rebels and spearhead a military effort to support them.
It was a dramatic call for US military intervention that went directly against the plan of action favoured by the Barack Obama administration and its European and Arab partners. (NATO, France, England and the Arab League ) He spoke at length about the Bashar Al Assad government in Syria, and said that the only realistic way to preserve ‘innocent lives in Syria… is with foreign airpower.’
Senator Mccain : Handle the Syrian Conflict the US – Way
The Arizona senator pointed out that President Barack Obama characterized the prevention of mass atrocities as “a core national security interest” when speaking about Libya, and has committed the credibility of the United States to his repeated calls for Assad to step down.
‘If Assad manages to cling to power – or even if he manages to sustain his slaughter for months to come, with all of the human and geopolitical costs that entails – it would be a strategic and moral defeat for the United States. We cannot, we must not, allow this to happen,” McCain said.
“Some kind of intervention will happen, with us or without us,” he said. “The real question for U.S. policy is whether we will participate in this next phase of the conflict in Syria, and thereby increase our ability to shape an outcome that is beneficial to the Syrian people, and to us.”
John Mccain : Typical republican and conservative mentality Us intervention and regime change ops
McCain’s idea is a typical neo-con conservative mindset of foreign intervention which implies a regime-change operation aimed at ousting one dictator in order to install another, US-approved dictator. The US government has no qualms about dictatorships. Syrian people are oppressed by the Assad government, but that does not empower America to intervene in the country or in any other country. It is the worst thing that would happen to Syrian people.
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I have many friends in Syria, and they have been sending me videos for a year now,,I get them everyday and everynight, they are deplorable, visions of small babies less than a day old being murdered,,,the carnage is unbelievable,,I have been sharing these videos to friends around the world,,,some friend think this is all a ploy for a war made by Mossad and the CIA,,we have over 7,000+ dead now, I belong to 6 Syrian groups, one underground secret group, and I am a member of AVAAZ which is a Syrian Activist group,,,In some places in Syria I am known, and they say I am a heroine,,I had picked up one middle eastern stalker already, had to have phone numbers changed, and change the information on my facebook,,,,,I AM NOT A WARMONGER,,I protested the Viet Nam war,,but this is way to much for anyone,,Assad likes especially to kill the children and the women,,his troops have gone into hospitals and killed all the babies in the nurseries,,,Yesterday I told my friends that airstrikes may be coming,,,,they were overwhelmed with relief,,,all attempts to approve further sanctions at the UN have been vetoed by Russia and China,,I am told that Russian troops are on the ground there, I can’t verify this as truth,,and Mossad has sent in 15,000 troops and furnished military equipment to Assad’s regime,,,,if you want further info that I have available, if you just befriend me I can put you into all of the groups, even the secret underground one,,and when I send all these videos around you will also receive them,,,please help my dear friends,,,I hate war, but what choice is there?? Defectors from Assad’s gang are leaving daily, and with their weapons they are joining the Free Syrian Army,,please let me know what to do,,,I have done all I am able to do,,,I have reassured them for over a year, held their hands when they have lost family or friends,,,I have stopped several suicide bombers,,good thing I am a psychotherapist,,,,I will wait to hear from you, and until then I will keep supporting them and share their videos with everyone I can,,,,,by the way,,,,I volunteered for your phone bank during your last election,,,,,,
Watching a brutal regime kill scores of people day after day with impunity, that it may stay in power, makes accomplices of us all.
History will not be kind.
Senator McCain is right. The World has sat this out too long.
The time to act on Syria is now — and we may be already too late.