SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN’S MEMORIAL DAY ADVENTURE…IN SYRIA?
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) had a very busy Memorial Day. In addition to visiting American troops in Turkey, he decided to visit Syria to become the highest ranking American to travel to the warring nation and meet with leaders of an Islamic sectarian faction.John McCain has been very vocally insisting that President Obama provide Syrian Rebels with weapons and advanced military training.
Officially,
President Obama says that his Administration has provided rebel forces
with “night vision goggles and body armor” and has no immediate plans to
provide anything more lethal. Neither John Kerry’s State Department or
any other element of The Obama Administration has made any public
statements about McCain’s trip and has directed media to ask their
questions about the senator’s mission in Syria to McCain or his
surrogates.
McCain
met with Gen. Salem Idris, who leads the Supreme Military Council of
the Free Syrian Army. The Obama Administration considers this group to
be Moderate, unlike its better organized and financed counterpart, the
Nusra Front, which has known ties to Al Qaeda.Despite the American President’s belief that the general is a moderate, the Syrian President, a secular Muslim, is saying that the bulk of the forces in rebellion against him are Islamists with known ties to terrorist organizations.
Despite
Assad’s assertions that if the U.S. decides to supply the rebels with
weapons, they will be giving advanced technology and military training
to terrorists, Senator McCain believes, “The U.S. does not have to act
alone, put boots on the ground or destroy every Syrian air-defense
system to make a difference.”McCain thinks that the U.S. should instead participate in any number of alternative military options. These alternatives include, but are not limited to, setting up and maintaining a no-fly zone, giving the rebels cruise missiles and Patriot Air Defense Missile Batteries to destroy Assad’s aircraft and helicopters, and using American combat assets to even engage in limited, targeted airstrikes within Syrian territory.
While McCain was meeting with Idris yesterday, the European Union voted to let the ban on providing weapons and training to the rebels lapse, resulting in a de-facto call to leave open the option to train and arm potential Syrian terrorists.
In
case you are thinking that these calls to train and arm a potentially
anti-Western, potentially terrorist-related rebel force in a Muslim
nation without knowing all their theology, are sounding eerily familiar,
that’s because that is precisely what the American Council on Foreign Relations
says that the U.S. and its allies did decades ago when they supplied
Osama Bin Laden and his Mujahadeen with the weapons and training they
needed to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
Senator McCain’s visit was also of particular interest to Al-Jazeera,
a media empire with known terrorist associations across the globe.
Al-Jazeera reported that the Syrian rebel general was very pleased with
McCain’s communications which culminated in a formal visit yesterday.Idris said:
“The visit of Senator McCain to Syria is very important and very useful especially at this time. We need American help to have change on the ground; we are now in a very critical situation.”
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