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Home Front: Politix
Hawkish McCain Likens Obama to Jimmy Carter on Syria
2014-01-23
[An Nahar] Senior U.S. politician John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
accused President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
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
... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet...
, 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 Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist dictators...
Speaking to a radio station in his home state of Arizona, the Republican senator said U.S. indecisiveness and inaction had made the situation in Syria even worse.

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 Leb, 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."

Carter, who served one term in the White House between 1977 and 1981, when he was ousted by Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, is dismissed by conservatives as dovish and ineffectual.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Actually, Jimmy Carter is looking better each day of the Champ's administration that passes.
Posted by: Bugs Mussolini1101   2014-01-23 21:08  

#6  McCain = Buck Turgidson.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2014-01-23 16:27  

#5  Can't figure out why McCain is so hopped up about Arabs killing Arabs unless some of them are slipping him a little on the side. I figure as long as their distracted by their own little squabbles they'll leave Israel be.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-01-23 12:00  

#4  McCain is a fool.
Posted by: jvalentour   2014-01-23 08:09  

#3  'an influential Washington foreign policy hawk'

Unfortunately the McCain/Graham hawkish doctrine includes support for the Muslim Brotherhood and support for the imposition of Sharia on non-Muslims in the West.

During the Cold War an equivalent to McCain and Graham would have been to the left of Gus Hall and the CPUSA.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2014-01-23 03:15  

#2  Don't you wish?!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-01-23 03:13  

#1  Too little too late Johnny boy. You've sold out too many times and the act is wearing thin. I suggest you retire. And FYI McStain, many of us came to that conclusion 5+ years ago - what took you so long?
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-01-23 02:22  

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