Do any of you remember when John McCain tried to prove that Baghdad was safe by strolling through a market there in a bulletproof vest accompanied by one hundred soldiers, three Blackhawks, and two Apache Gunships? Well, he’s at it again, but this time he went to Syria for like a whole hour or two. Seriously. He was in-country for like 120 minutes. He’s an expert, now.
What a genius this man is! He’s never seen a war that he doesn’t want your son or daughter to fight.
McCain, a leading critic of the Obama administration’s policy towards Syria, has been calling for the U.S. to provide lethal aid to opposition forces seeking the ouster of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Meanwhile, the masters of war are busy at work building the case that the Assad regime is using sarin gas against the rebels. France, of course, has been trying to get the European Union to lift its ban on sending weapons to the Syrian theater of the global war on chaos. They succeeded last night.
Syria used to be a French colony, so I suggest that McCain join their air force and crash their planes for a change. Once he’s a hostage, we can reanimate Ronald Reagan and get him to sell some TOW missiles to Iran in exchange for McCain’s release.
I really hope Obama doesn’t allow weapons to be given to the Syrian rebels. That country is such a cluster-fuck right now that we’d have no way of knowing who will end up with the weapons. Last time we did this in Afghanistan, it ended up biting us in the ass.
Even if the rebels end up with the weapons, they’ll only turn them on us or their allies. No matter what happens in Syria, we lose.
Andy Borowitz nails it.
Also, what happened to the report that the rebels may be the ones using chemical weapons?
Strange that he has given away so much of himself and all that is left is that fighter pilot missing the carrier deck over and over again.
Do any of you remember when John McCain tried to prove that Baghdad was safe by strolling through a market there in a bulletproof vest accompanied by one hundred soldiers, three Blackhawks, and two Apache Gunships?
Yes.
Do remember when he want on a tour of the region in 2008, and kept saying that Iran was supporting al Qaeda, until finally Joe Lieberman had to correct him live on camera?
How the hell can someone in his position not know about the Sunni-Shiite thing in 2008?
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Not the warmest of friends with the Reagans …
Chicken-hawks are gonna squawk, simple as that.
Also, oops all your design work on the F-35 (R+D budgets easily in the hundreds of billions) is now in Chinese hands. Of course, it’s not such a big deal because an armed conflict with China would be pure insanity (at least for the 99%). But really, what a fiasco.
McCain met with five rebel “leaders” they told him they think the arms will get to the right people. Well that’s all I need to hear. What a smart man that McCain. That was one worthwhile trip.
Who paid for this stupid jaunt anyway? I assume the administration knew bomb brain was going?
I guess the troops surge in Iraq worked out so well, US Navy stunt pilot John McCain sneaked into Northern Syria for about an hour to advocate use of more violence against the Syrian military and overthrow President Assad.
Cross-posted from my diary – Europe Ends Arms Embargo to Conflict Zone Syria.
Arggghhh, did I just hear it right on Chris Hayes show that the rebel leader that McCain met with, according to a Time article, took a bite out of his captured enemy’s heart and then his liver?
You know they serve still beating hearts at all the neocon soireés, so no biggee.
I do love it when you cut loose, Booman. Bonus points for pointing out what a shit pilot McCain was…
“Syria used to be a French colony”
Just like Viet Nam was a French Colony. Ah, the glory days, Huh, Sandhead John?
John McCain? Son of WWII Naval Hero and butt-buddy with Ho Chi Mien John McCain? The legacy graduate third from the bottom of his class at Annapolis who blew up four jet aircraft before he got off the deck of the carrier John McCain? Whose total time “in-country” before getting its incompetent ass shot down dropping bombs on light bulb factories from ten thousand feet amounted to less than I and my squad spent on a single patrol John McCain? Who sold out his fellow prisoners of war through media appearances and celebrity preferential treatment John McCain?
That the John McCain you’re talking about?
No fear.
Hey, God forbid the son of an admiral be held to the same standards as some faceless interchangeable grunts from Nowheresville! What are you, some kind of egalitarian?