Syria Crisis: McCain Cautions Military Options Might Not Help (HuffPo)
WASHINGTON -- Top senators said Tuesday that the United States should begin thinking of arming the opposition in Syria, even as one suggested that military options might not be the best way forward.
"It should not be ruled out when [Syrian president] Bashar Assad is massacring his own people," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), of the prospect of providing weapons or other military assistance to Syrian resistance forces.
But McCain also cautioned that the various military options being discussed, including no-fly zones or the creation of protected enclaves, might not be the most productive way to aid the opposition. "The question is how do you do it, if you do it in a viable fashion -- that the arms get to the right people, that it's used effectively," McCain said. "It's much more complicated in many respects than it was in Libya."
"All of the options have got to be considered, maybe a no movement zone, maybe a sanctuary zone," he added. "But the key to them is not whether you do them, but whether you do them and have the desired effect. And that's not clear to me what the efficacy of all these options are."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/syria-mccain-military-options_n_1260575.html?ir=Politics
John McCain making sense.
That's it: No more pre-dinner wine for me!
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