As much as I detest Sen. John McCain, he actually asked a pretty good question at the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning. If we arm and train "moderate" Syrian rebels, and the Syrian Army under President Assad attacks them, then what?
They will be fighting against [Bashar] Assad and Assad will attack them from the air, which he has done with significant success …if one of the Free Syrian Army is fighting against Assad and he is attacking them from the air, would we take action to prevent them from being attacked from Assad?
McCain, to no one's surprise, would like to see American troops in Syria. Secretary Hagel would only give McCain a vague, not-even-an-answer answer:
Any attack on those we have trained, we will help.
This whole thing is just getting better and better. :rolleyes: Anybody else thing it might be a good idea to just stay the hell out of Syria, period?
Onward and upward,
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