Senator John McCain is the biggest warmonger on the planet, next to Hillary Clinton of course.
Ironically, McCain has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today that proclaims Stop Assad Now—Or Expect Years of War.
Like Hillary who wants a no-fly zone over Syria, McCain says “Ground the regime’s air force, create safe zones for Syrian civilians, and arm the opposition.”
McCain: America’s intrepid secretary of state has now taken the meaningless step of suspending talks with Russia over Syria. Meanwhile, Mr. Assad and Mr. Putin are creating military facts on the ground in Syria that will enable them to dictate the terms of a peace secured by carnage. They have decimated coalition-backed Syrian groups, slaughtered countless civilians, consolidated the Syrian regime’s hold on power, and even struck a United Nations humanitarian-aid convoy. And they have done all of this with no consequences. Thus the war grinds on.
Mish: Dear Senator, how many innocent civilians were slaughtered in Iraq in a needless war you sponsored? How many in Afghanistan? How many innocent victims has US drone policy killed? And for that matter, how many innocent people have died in Syria because the US backed Al Qaeda terrorists? Can we please have an accounting?
McCain: While the U.S.-led coalition is making progress in the fight against Islamic State, we cannot forget this terrorist organization is a symptom of the Syrian civil war. The future of that conflict will have significant strategic impact on U.S. national security.
Mish: Dear Senator, need I remind you that ISIS is a direct result of US policy in Iraq. Even former UK prime minister Tony Blair Admits Responsibility. And you know what else Senator? Saudi Arabia is the biggest supporter of ISIS. And it was Saudi Nationals that attacked the US in 911, not Iraqis.
McCain: Any alternative approach must begin with grounding Mr. Assad’s air power. It is a strategic advantage that enables the Assad regime to perpetuate the conflict through the wanton slaughter of innocent Syrians.
Mish: Dear Senator, the correct alternative approach is not to get in bed with Hillary, but to stop meddling in the first place. Where are your crocodile tears for millions slaughtered in Africa? Is the difference oil by any chance? Oil that gives Saudi Arabia enough money to buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of US military equipment?
McCain: If Russia continues its indiscriminate bombing, we should make clear that we will take steps to hold its aircraft at greater risk. And we must create safe zones for Syrian civilians and do what is necessary to protect them against violations by Mr. Assad, Mr. Putin and extremist forces.
Mish: Dear Senator, were you remotely paying attention to what the chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, General Joseph Dunford, told the Senate armed services committee just a few days ago? “For us to control all of the air space in Syria, would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia. That’s a pretty fundamental decision I am not willing to make.” My suspicion is you were paying attention and you want a war with Russia just as you wanted the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. On the off chance you were sleeping when General Joseph Dunford said a no-fly zone might mean war with Russia, please check out Syria Spotlight: US Suspends Talks with Russia – What’s Really Going On?
McCain: Now is the time for a new strategy—including the necessary military component—that can achieve this more realistic objective. This will undoubtedly entail greater costs. But the alternative is far from cost-free: It is the continuation, for years and years, of terror, tragedy, slaughter, refugees, and a war in the heart of the Middle East that will continue to threaten the U.S. and destabilize the world.
Mish: Dear Senator, we certainly do need a new strategy. We need to mind our own business, just as New Zealand and Switzerland do. We cannot afford to be the world’s policeman. Speaking of which, how the heck do you propose to pay for this? In addition to being a perpetual warmonger, you are a perpetual deficit spending hypocrite.
Dear Senator, You and Hillary Are the Problem
Dear Senator McCain, our national security is threatened by you, your policies, and your soulmate, Hillary Clinton.
Neither of you have seen a war prospect you did not support. Both of you are totally clueless about blowbacks from meddling.
Dangerous Person Award
Hillary Clinton is the Most Dangerous Person On the Planet Today.
Why? The simple explanation is she is committed to carrying out the policies espoused by Senator McCain.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Arming terrorists in a sovereign nation is an act of war.
Bombing and attacking targets in a sovereign nation is an act of war.
No fly zones in a sovereign nation is an act of war.
Stationing troops and special forces in a sovereign nation is an act of war.
Assimilation of a country’s leadership in a sovereign nation is an act of war.
Etc.
We have no UN mandate to be in Syria.
We have no congressional approval to be in Syria.
Obama, Clinton and McCain are war criminals.
Assassination…
I saw a new (first?) Hillary campaign sign today. The home-owner placed it behind campaign signs for governor and a US Congressional candidates.
hope the dog crapped on it
I pride myself on being a decent judge of character. I don’t always get it right. But 80% of the time I do. All I need to do is watch the body language and listen to a person talk for about 15-20 minutes to determine if he or she deserves a-hole status.
McCain has consistently satisfied that threshold.
McCain is nothing more than the Military Industrial Complex’s gateway to Congress. His salary pales in comparison to the perks he gains from them.
In fact, McCain is give-a-way. He wouldn’t even have to open his mouth to meet my criteria.
It’s written all over his face.
McCain is a Hillary body double.
The one thing the US can do to improve the Syrian crisis is to:
Drop McCain over Syria… From 30000 ft… Without a parachute…
Fit him with a GOPRO and broadcast the event live for everybody to enjoy 🙂
I believe you meant to type “McCain”, not “McClain”?
LMAO!
John McClain has no trouble imposing a “no-fly zone”.
https://youtu.be/OLBvvrC1IqY
John McClain : “It’s a Glock VII, a ceramic gun made in Germany, ….costs more than you make in a month”
Carmine Lorenzo : (@1:52) “You’d be surprised what I make in a month!”
LMAO, yes, your monthly salary would surprise us!
“On the off chance you were sleeping when General Joseph Dunford said a no-fly zone might mean war with Russia”
Actually, McCain denies a no-fly zone would mean war with Russia. He also guaranteed, a month before Russia intervened’ that “they will not act”.
McCain and Sen Lindy Graham have pounding the table for war, the sooner the better, ever since they took office. Americans have had a belly full of these wars. WE invaded Iraq in 1991 with Gen “Storman Norman” Schwartzkof, and now, 25 years later, we still have American Troops on the ground in Iraq. The wars we have started in the Mid-East have opened the doors for the Muslim Terrorists seeking revenge. Some say we deserve it.
McPain is far and away the worst republican I have ever seen; a complete disgrace. And, he just keeps on getting even worse.
Thanks Mish for helping expose this moron for what he is. More people should take note as were all about to die and not from old age. I once thought the USA could be the leaders of the free world but now were not so free are we.
Time for all the sheeple to wake up and smell the coffee or you’ll all be witnessing a light show that will ruin your day.
“leaders of the free world”
That’s the fundamental oxymoron, right there….
The question I am wondering is: Is McPain really stupid enough to believe the crap coming out of his mouth, or does he think the American people are that stupid? Doesn’t he know the truth is all over the internet these days?
The Washington Post – Jeff Bezos’s Blog.
CJ – that is the best video! Vanessa Beeley spells out what’s happening in Syria in such a straightforward manner. A very brave lady.
If you want to learn about what’s happening in Aleppo (how the city is split in two – civilians in West Aleppo being protected by the Syrian government, and terrorists in East Aleppo being protected by the U.S.), who the White Helmets really are, and what’s really going on, watch this video.
Thanks, CJ. I’m going to post this video all over the place. Everybody should.
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/73/7372a27850e5d1eafbc1e75f11c552033875e34302c204264db39ab308c8ccaf.jpg
We are still searching for a country that McCainiac does not want to attack–Wikipedia
Putin has good reason to believe that if he doesn’t stop NATO outside Damascus the next battle will be outside Moscow.
Is he a Star Trek fan?
McCain’s early death would be much appreciated.
TIA
The war propaganda is getting increasingly desperate and obvious, as the need grows to distract the sheeple from the economic fraud by govt – http://twistedlittlethings.com/tlt/2016/10/02/war-propaganda-is-the-worst/.
What is quite disheartening is that Gov Pence is promoting the same propaganda against Russia. Although, Trump does not appear to be a nation builder, which is the main reason the neocons will likely assasinate him if elected.
As China is demonstrating with their new Silk Road development (One Belt, One Road – OBOR), world domination is not the only strategy for increasing properity – http://m.journal-neo.org/2016/10/04/the-eurasian-century-is-now-unstoppable-2/
” The One Belt, One Road, by linking all the contiguous land areas of Eurasia to the related network of strategic new or enlarged deep-water ports of OBOR’s Maritime Silk Road, has rendered US geopolitical strategy a devastating blow at a time the hegemony of America is failing as never in its short history. The Eurasian Century today is inevitable and unstoppable. Built on different principles of cooperation rather than domination, it just might offer a model for the bankrupt United States and the soon-bankrupt European Union, to build up true prosperity not based on looting and debt slavery.”
The trillions being invested in OBOR, while our infrastructure crumbles, and govt waste time, money, and lives is leaving us bankrupt and unprepared for the future.
It would be nice if someone would recall that during the Cold War the number one goal was not to provoke a war between the US and Russia.
It seems we have now decided that the number one goal is to provoke a war with Russia. This is spinning out of control and is going to lead to war.
“This is spinning out of control and is going to lead to war.”
The war is 15 years old, already.
The first day the US bombed Syria they dropped more ordinance than they had in 6 weeks protecting Kurds and Yezidis in Iraq. All of it landed on bridges and infrastructure of the Syrian state, not on ISIS. The US, together with 26 coalition partners (representing >80% of global military spending) have relentlessly pursued ISIS in Iraq, while all new international jihada’s, training, weapons, and supplies comes across the open border with NATO ally Turkey. The effect of this onslaught is that ISIS expanded its territory!
These jihadis are either super men to a man, or Allah really is on their side. Their is no other explanation. A few tens of thousands of hapless jihadi recruits prevail against almost the entire globe!!! Assad is slaughtering the civilian population, but these guys remain untouched, and except for executions of kafirs, they are noble too, sparing the civilians, unlike the ruthless presidential pretender Assad (who is about 3× more popular than Obama — let alone Hillary).
I have no idea when people will wake up, but it should be obvious to anybody that al-Qaeda and ISIS are US assets (al-Qaeda is Arabic for data-base, i.e., the CIA database with useful jihadi terrorists). The fact that these people are being supported, armed, trained, furnished with intelligence, etc., tells us a lot about whose side the US is on, despite the public narrative about fighting the enemy perpetrators of 911, who kindly left al-Suqami’s passport on top of the vaporized remains of the twin towers, hint, hint…
They’re not US “assets.” Just regular Joes and Abduls who have seen enough nonsense from enough “leaders” for enough time in enough places, to realize putting down their guns just because some self proclaimed “Dear Leader” on Propaganda TV promises to use lube and go soft on them, will never lead to anything but slavery.
They’re grown up enough, to know full and well AssadCare will happily take their money, but will never care for them in old age. So they have plenty of kids.
And they know full and well that no matter how many percent of the population Assad’s propaganda machine can sucker into putting his name on some slip in a silly booth every four odd years; his police force will never be there to protect their poppeti vaijues. But will instead happily show up to take it from them, and hand it to themselves. So, they teach their kids the skills needed resist the taking part. Including preemptively weakening the takers.
They realize “Rule of Law”, provides no more protections than entirely arbitrary rule, as long as Assad and Co gets to write the law, while they just have to submit to it. So, like the US Founders and those of Old Israel, they realize the only valid law, is one that is not “subject to interpretation” by Dear Leader and his court stooges, nor a “living document.” But rather something simple enough that they can, themselves, quickly verify whether it is indeed being followed as diligently by others. Including Dear Leader himself, as it is by them. And if not… Their Law provides guidance for how to deal with those “situations” too…
You, and I, may not 100% agree with them and their chosen law, but at least it’s something. Not just some silly absurdity, like most of the rest of the world is stuck with. And if it works for them, by all means have at it.
Stuki Moi – and they think that if they can keep getting U.S. weaponry, food and training and they fight really hard for Allah, they just might be able to install a completely Sunni government in Syria. Then their Sunni leaders can sell out the country (like the rest of the U.S. puppet governments around the world) and maybe, just maybe, they might get a piece of the action (like the new government leaders in Libya have).
Way too many children. I mean, 40% of the population is under the age of 15 or 16. WTF? How could any government possibly take care of that type of population explosion?
Instead of fighting for their country, Syria, the young men have fled to Europe, egged on by upstanding (not) NGO’s such as George Soros’ fake organizations.
“Mr. Assad and Mr. Putin are creating military facts on the ground in Syria that will enable them to dictate the terms of a peace secured by carnage…”
Look in your own mirror Mr. McCain. The blood is on your own hands.
McCain:” Any alternative approach must begin with grounding Mr. Assad’s air power. It is a strategic advantage that enables the Assad regime to perpetuate the conflict through the wanton slaughter of innocent Syrians.”
The blood of Syrian civilians is on McCain’s hands. McCain is perpetuating the conflict, as the conflict has always been about attempting to overthrow Assad. McCain doesn’t really care about innocent civilians, he cares about overthrowing Assad. That is what is perpetuating the conflict.
Maverick. What a piece of work.
A few of my favorite low lights
When running in 2008 asked how many houses he had. Wasn’t sure.
When Republicans retook the Senate (and he was in line to become Chairman of the Armed Forces Committee) the first thing he said he wanted to do was undo the sequester for defense.
In 2006 he and Lindsay Graham participated in a faux street market scene. On the news showed them talking with street merchants as if everything fine. In reality a full company of troops had the street on lock down.
LMAO!
Wasn’t McCain on some sort of “fact finding” junket where he posed for photos with fighters later confirmed as ISIS members?
This guy is unbelievable. At least historians may be kind to Hillary once they know she had Parkinson’s Disease as an excuse.
And yet the people of Arizona elect him like clockwork.
Same as his kiddie diddler pal Little Lindsay Graham.
Quite amazing really.
The lack of warm water ports has long been a critical one for the Russians. Perhaps the warmongers think they can easily depose Assad and deny the Russians their vital Syrian port. Or maybe statements claiming they will not respond are just bait to get fools on board so they can have the war with Russia they desire.
Putin asked Obama to work together to stabilize the country under Assad and then remove Assad later. We would need assurances that they really would help remove him later, but it’s a reasonable way to bring peace while recognizing the Russian’s vital interests and without delivering the country to Islamic extremists. Too reasonable for the American warmonger crowd; nothing doing
This goes way beyond McCain and Clinton. They are just the front for a large group of conservatives and liberals alike wanting war. The hell with the American people. We don’t matter. The military industrial complex exists.
At age 80 Mcain belongs in a nursing home. His ideas and perspectives are 60 years old and out of date.
Everything you wanted to know about John McInsane but were afraid to ask. Site is currently down.
http://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-legacy-of-sydney-schanberg/
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Follow the money…..check McLame portfolio to see how heavily invested he is in gov military contractors and the amount of cash from kickbacks he has taken. Sad to say, he will get re-elected to foist upon us and the world his own form of terrorism for six more years
Now that Trump is President what will happen now?