Administration is "partially to blame" for Syria chemical attack, McCain says

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/CBS News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, said comments made by people in President Donald Trump’s administration are “partially to blame” for encouraging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons on his people last week.

McCain responded to remarks that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made at the end of March, before the attack, including comments that the Syrian people would determine Assad’s fate, and that removing him from power isn’t a top priority.

“I think it probably was partially to blame,” McCain said. “And Secretary Tillerson basically saying the same thing after kind of contradicting himself and then saying the same thing argues vigorously for a plan and a strategy. As I said again, taking this action I support and was important.”

McCain also said he does “not agree” with Tillerson’s position that the U.S. needs to concentrate on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) before it can further address Assad’s purported brutality against his own people, saying ISIS and Assad are “totally connected” issues.

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[pangaia]

1. McDuffus is a directionless fart.

[yallerdawg]

2. What you say and tweet matters!

A 180 degree turnabout in policy and promise hinges on what the Liar-in-Chief sees on TV, and maybe who is in the room with him making comments?

Fareed Zakaria broadcast pictures of children starving all over Africa right now - in case "someone important" was watching, someone who suddenly seems to be concerned about humanitarian issues.

Fox News was and is celebrating "our glorious leader"!

He was probably out golfing.

[Igel]

9. You can't reasonably get from

"the Syrian people will decide" to "this means I'm free to commit war crimes and gas my own citizens."

We're friends with Britain. Does that mean the government has permission and even encouragement from us to round up people and kill them?


Oddly, I don't see the turnaround. There are perfectly valid interpretations that don't require it--in fact, they all but predict something like the Tomahawk attack. It's like the UV catastrophe in physics. It's all over the place, there's no making sense of it, so something must be wrong with the universe.

Or something's wrong with our theory. Which is what Planck nicely showed.

Then again, I'm trained in linguistics, and one of the overriding assumptions is that behind the sea of random inconsistency called "speech" are regular patterns and processes at the individual language level as well as in terms of universal principles governing constraints on what languages can be like. Functional linguistics and their random picking and choosing of data to support their non-falsifiable ideas that make no predictions entirely aside.

The problem is that the pattern may not be where you're looking.

[cstanleytech]

3. Sorry John but most of us know you arent a real maverick and will bow down and brown nose like the

rest of the Repugnants and you proved that multiple times most recently with your vote to do away with filibuster to get Gorsuch in so please kindly fuck off, thank you.

[lark]

4. He talks all "mavericky"

but votes the party line with all the rest of the repugnants.

[cstanleytech]

7. Exactly, he is all talk and its a huge part of why he lost to Obama.

[bluestarone]

5. Trump isn't doing all this on his own

They(republicans) all talk but continue to vote for whatever Trump wants kinda SCARY if you know what i mean

[DK504]

6. Okay, here's the deal Johnny ...

"... President Donald Trump’s administration are “partially to blame” for encouraging Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s apparent use of chemical weapons on his people last week. "

You are still defending this walking, talking piece of roach shit even after EVERY thing he has said about you. WTF is wrong with you? WTF.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. It's easy to despise McCain, however the fact that a major Republican is NOT moving in lock step

with a Republican administration when it comes to foreign policy is a huge deal.

Trump is still toast and will continue to be toast no matter how many cruise missiles he lobs at Syria/and or North Korea.

[Igel]

10. They show this behavior rather frequently.

But you have to either have your face smashed into the fact or have some pressing reason to notice the fact to actually perceive it.

Otherwise the news and perceptions of the political foe is rather like a cat hairball versus a cat's actual coat. All you see is an amorphous mass that's been chewed into unrecognizability; you know it's hair, you know it's cat hair, and unless you actually pay attention to cats instead of the hairball you may never see the difference.

[riversedge]

11. K and R.