John McCain never saw a war he didn’t want to fight. I guess we can take comfort in the fact that he doesn’t want to put U.S. “boots on the ground” in Syria. He only wants to create a safety zone, probably modeled on the no-fly zones in Iraq. Terrorism aficionado Rep. Peter King of Long Island is sensible enough, however, to realize that the rebels in this instance aren’t of the freedom-loving Ahmed Chalabi variety. He’s skeptical about arming them at all.
It pays to remember that American intelligence agencies have medium to high confidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, but it is not completely clear who was using them. That ought to be enough proof and provocation to justify the U.S. getting hugely involved in the Syrian Civil War, right?
What is truly frightening is that people like John McCain think there are pro-American rebels to arm.
