Syrian rebels fighting to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad and his regime need heavy weapons, according to US Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who visited the country in secret earlier this week.
McCain added that the rebels are in need of the weapons, along with ammunition, in order to counter the regime’s tanks and aircraft. He warned that, should they not received the weapons, it will impossible for the rebels to win the country’s bloody civil war.
The world has been reluctant to arm the rebels, including the United States, though they have been watching the conflict closely. Several Western countries, including the US, have been supplying rebel forces with humanitarian aid.
But McCain asserted that the opposition forces need more than first aid and food supplies. He stated on Friday, “They just can’t fight tanks with AK-47s.”
The Republican senator and former presidential candidate made a secret, unannounced trip to Syria on Monday, traveling across the border through Kilis, Turkey. He spent about two hours with rebel leaders. McCain has also been very vocal in Congress about his support of arming the Syrian rebels.
McCain added that he arranged the trip with the help of Deputy Secretary of State William Burns. He added that he spoke to Secretary of State John Kerry before the trip, but never mentioned the secret trip to Syria. He explained, “It wasn’t that I was hiding it from him; it just didn’t seem to come up. I thought Burns was the right guy to go through. They were very important in the trip.”
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The Liberty Report Take: So let’s get this straight, let’s borrow more money from China and add to our unsustainable National Debt where we soon won’t even be able to afford the interest payments so we can fund another country’s civil war. We can then put our own troops on the ground as the aid and weapons won’t be enough so our sons and daughters can lose their lives defending another country and a new regime that probably won’t like us any better. We can bomb their roads and bridges and then have our tax payers pay to fix them back up while ours are crumbling at home. Great plan John…..
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