Hawkish McCain Likens Obama To Jimmy Carter On Syria (He does not it as a compliment)

[pampango]

Senior U.S. lawmaker John McCain accused President Barack Obama on Wednesday of risking a Middle East regional conflagration by failing to show leadership on the crisis in Syria.

The conservative senator and former presidential candidate, an influential Washington foreign policy hawk, compared Obama to former president Jimmy Carter, widely seen here as weak. McCain, a former navy pilot who was made prisoner during the Vietnam War, is a strong advocate of robust support for Syrian rebels seeking to oust President Bashar al-Assad.

So far the administration has resisted McCain’s call for the United States to send weapons and other material support to the rebels in Syria, to the U.S. senator’s great frustration.

“It has turned to a tragedy of mammoth proportions,” he said. “It’s becoming a regional conflict. It’s spread to Lebanon, it’s spread to Turkey, it’s spread to Jordan. I have never seen anything like this in my life. I thought Jimmy Carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president, in my view.”

http://www.nationalmemo.com/hawkish-mccain-likens-obama-to-jimmy-carter-on-syria/

McCain does not mean this as the compliment that some of us take it to be.

[Liberal_Dog]

1. If He Thinks It Is So Bad Now...

then how would throwing more weapons into the mix be helpful?

Seems to me like that would tossing gasoline on the fire.

[TwilightGardener]

2. God spare us from this fucking loon. Hasn't he done enough harm?

[bullwinkle428]

3. Charlie Pierce provides a more-than-appropriate response to the cranky old jackwagon:

"Oh, lord. Somebody walked on his lawn again.

"I have never seen anything like this in my life. I thought Jimmy Carter was bad, but he pales in comparison to this president in my view," he said in an interview on Phoenix radio station KFYI. McCain said that situation in Syria has become a regional conflict and that al Qaeda-affiliated groups have become involved. "It is spreading throughout the region, and sooner or later it will affect the United States of America if you allow a place to become a base for al Qaeda," he said. "We now have thousands of fighters of this - radical, extremist, al-Qaida affiliated people pouring in from all over the world into Syria, fighting against our guys, who are the good guys and also not doing much fighting against Bashar Assad."

Jesus god, just go away, OK? The world is not going to give you another war and nobody's interested much in the judgment of someone who sought to put Sarah Palin within reach of The Button. But, I confess, I don't get quaffing the vintage Haterade on Jimmy Carter who, in the long view of American political history, has done far more than John McCain ever has. The worst thing that ever happened to Carter was the Iranian hostage crisis, which was touched off when Carter allowed the Shah into this country, which Carter did partly at the behest of Henry Kissinger, the hem of whose garments McCain has been clutching ever since he came to Washington. I realize that one of the primary means of burnishing Carter's dim successor, who unfroze Iranian assets and later sold the Iranians missiles, is to run down Carter, who didn't, but it's 2014. There has to be something better."


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[gordianot]

4. There is a shortage of weapons on either side?

[Orsino]

5. Surely he'll get bored with Syria soon...

...and move on to the next distraction from doing his damned job.