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[h=1]To McCain: If You Don't Know Whom You're Taking Photos With, How Do You Know Whom You're Arming?[/h]During a televised interview on Fox News, Arizona Senator John McCain was confronted by John Roberts who asked him what Kentucky Senator Rand Paul asked: "If you don't know whom you're taking photos with, how do you know whom your giving weapons to?" in reference to the fact that McCain met with the notorious kidnappers of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims.
As expected, McCain answered with a typical lie that members of the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA) are brave and fighting for democracy, not that their commanders have openly stated their desire to implement Sharia, not that they have units called the "Osama bin Laden" brigade, etc
I wonder if he knows that the majority of people now support the Syrian gov according to a recent poll?
This poll: NATO data: Assad winning the war for Syrians’ hearts and minds | World TribuneWhich poll?
And no. Over the last month.The one taken over a year ago that only polled 90 Syrians?
Nope thats the FSAAnd I had no idea that the FSA leaders pledged their movement towards jihad or had a brigade named after Osama bin Laden. Why, that sounds like something that al-Nusra, who we're not supporting, would do.
Two of those men are part of a group who kidnapped 11 Shias last year in Lebannon.As for the photo, only one of the hostages described the men in the photo as being his kidnappers. If the others are freed then we are more likely to know if his testimony is true.
Your source itself admits that they didn't get their data from a poll, but rather from "independent activist organizations." In the confusion of the wartime situation and the lack of evidence or number of Syrians polled, I find these results to be questionable.This poll: NATO data: Assad winning the war for Syrians’ hearts and minds | World Tribune
And no. Over the last month.
Well, we can easily solve that problem. Make abandoning jihad rhetoric a requirement for receiving aid packages from the US, and I'll bet that the "Osama bin Laden Brigade" will cease to exist as a part of the FSA.Nope thats the FSA
FSA has 'Osama bin Laden' Brigade | Military.com
Two of those men are part of a group who kidnapped 11 Shias last year in Lebannon.
That is how the data was compiled. NATO has been studying it and produced the numbers to the public.Your source itself admits that they didn't get their data from a poll, but rather from "independent activist organizations."
I am also waiting for the study itself.In the confusion of the wartime situation and the lack of evidence or number of Syrians polled, I find these results to be questionable.
Yea... That still doesnt solve the problem of them still floating around. We can make all the requirements on paper we want but they can easily still flow to various groups, especially for $$$..Well, we can easily solve that problem. Make abandoning jihad rhetoric a requirement for receiving aid packages from the US, and I'll bet that the "Osama bin Laden Brigade" will cease to exist as a part of the FSA.
And also the family members of the hostages. Only one has been able to identify him because he has been released.Only one of the hostages identified those men as his kidnappers. Innocent until proven guilty, right?
Yea... That still doesnt solve the problem of them still floating around. We can make all the requirements on paper we want but they can easily still flow to various groups, especially for $$$..
We have them floating around here in the US, in Europe and everywhere in the world. No corner is free from terrorists of one sort or another. Why do you hold the US responsible for eliminating terrorism in Syria? The West is merely trying to promote human rights and democracy. No one promised the Syrians an externally established utopia.
The assumption that it falls upon the West to create utopia in Syria (or elsewhere) is an astoundingly flawed premise.
Yea... We are tying to "promote human rights and democracy"... Good one.
Oh, yeah, such a laugh. So, what do you do?
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Way to side step the question. Way to not even answer the question Senator McCain. :dohI wonder if he knows that the majority of people now support the Syrian gov according to a recent poll?
Which poll? The one taken over a year ago that only polled 90 Syrians?
And I had no idea that the FSA leaders pledged their movement towards jihad or had a brigade named after Osama bin Laden. Why, that sounds like something that al-Nusra, who we're not supporting, would do.
As for the photo, only one of the hostages described the men in the photo as being his kidnappers. If the others are freed then we are more likely to know if his testimony is true.
Your source itself admits that they didn't get their data from a poll, but rather from "independent activist organizations." In the confusion of the wartime situation and the lack of evidence or number of Syrians polled, I find these results to be questionable.
Well, we can easily solve that problem. Make abandoning jihad rhetoric a requirement for receiving aid packages from the US, and I'll bet that the "Osama bin Laden Brigade" will cease to exist as a part of the FSA.
Only one of the hostages identified those men as his kidnappers. Innocent until proven guilty, right?
What do i do? I go to work, go to school, pay my taxes, read, and relax. What do you do?
As do I.. Point being?I promote human rights and democracy, get with the program.
We have them floating around here in the US, in Europe and everywhere in the world. No corner is free from terrorists of one sort or another. Why do you hold the US responsible for eliminating terrorism in Syria? The West is merely trying to promote human rights and democracy. No one promised the Syrians an externally established utopia.
The assumption that it falls upon the West to create utopia in Syria (or elsewhere) is an astoundingly flawed premise.
Yea... We are tying to "promote human rights and democracy"... Good one.
As do I.. Point being?
Sarcasm..
Ok?
Sarcasm..
Yeah, sure.
You agreed, as expected.
Or i was just being sarcastic, hence i said "yea good one".
You believe that a significant portion of US foreign policy and war motivation is to spread human rights and democracy?
No. Not at all.
Then you were not being sarcastic.
No i was being sarcastic saying ,"We are tying to "promote human rights and democracy"." That is why after that i said "...yea good one" to implicate sarcasm.
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