Editor’s Note: Here’s the sanctimonious claptrap being distributed by the American media to the perennially clueless American public (this version courtesy of the Wall Street Journal) as they tighten the noose around the Syrian regime’s neck. As always, American officialdom’s hypocrisy beats just about any emetic on the market—PG
By JAY SOLOMON, WSJ
WASHINGTON—Republicans and Democrats pressed President Barack Obama on Sunday to do more to intervene and stop the civil war in Syria, citing a U.S. intelligence report released last week that concluded President Bashar al-Assad used small amounts of chemical weapons against his opponents.
But leading lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.), also uniformly stressed on Sunday talk shows that they didn’t believe the U.S. should send American troops into Syria to confront Mr. Assad. Both lawmakers and the Obama administration are wary about U.S. involvement in another conflict in the Middle East after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mr. McCain argued that the U.S. should instead support a no-fly zone in Syria to protect civilians and rebels from Mr. Assad’s forces. Other lawmakers called for significantly more humanitarian aid.
“We have said that they need a no-fly zone, which could be obtained without using U.S.-manned aircraft,” said Mr. McCain, a sharp critic of Mr. Obama’s Syria policy, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We could use Patriot batteries and cruise missiles to take out their air and to supply…the resistance with weapons.”
He said he didn’t want American “boots on the ground” but said that the international community should “be prepared with an international force to go in and secure these stocks of chemical and perhaps biological weapons.”
Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) said on the same show: “I believe the United States could play a greater role in dealing with the humanitarian crisis…I don’t think the world’s greatest superpower, the United States, can stand by and not do anything.”
Obama abhors peace. He prioritizes war. His appetite exceeds his predecessors and then some. It’s insatiable. He’s currently waging multiple direct and proxy wars. He plans more in Africa. He destroyed Libya. He’s ravaging Syria.
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