Sunday, December 09, 2012

A short time ago in a region very very close

John McCain speaking in Bahrain today --

This is the perception in Syria, where everything that people said would happen if we did not intervene has now happened because we have not intervened -- growing radicalization, sectarian conflict, the collapse of the state, and now the spectre of chemical or biological weapons being used.

Note that his list of supposed consequences of the US not intervening in Syria describes exactly, in reverse order, the results of the McCain-supported US intervention in Iraq.