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[Which Assad? Did you miss a photo of McCain coordinating with ISIS and Al-Qaeda leaders against Assad?]

Like murder, there’s no statute of limitation on terror sponsorship. It’s the same regime. While I sympathize with the plight of the Alawites, the way I sympathize with the plight of poor black murderers, they are still accountable for their crimes. Frankly, the Alawites could kill every single Sunni Arab, and I’d cheer them on. And vice versa. The fact is they were culpable in the deaths of 200 Marines in Lebanon via their sponsorship of Hezbollah.

Your contention is that McCain knowingly allied with jihadists. I have serious doubts, knowing how prissy he was with this kind of stuff. A simpler explanation is that the CIA was incompetent* at acquiring human intelligence, the way it almost always is, which is why just about every significant CIA source consists of walk-ins, rather than people carefully cultivated by CIA case officers on assignment abroad. As usual, the CIA people on the ground in Syria couldn’t tell a jihadist from a hole in the ground.

But let’s say your contention, that McCain knowingly allied with jihadists in trying to have Assad killed, is correct. So what? If we went into alliance with the Soviet Union, which helped Hitler kick off WWII, killing 500,000 Americans, we can use jihadists to whack Assad. What else are jihadists good for, except landfill fodder?

* If loyalty weren’t an issue, we could probably do better by recruiting/headhunting the staff of the Chinese and Russian intelligence services and firing the entire staff of the existing CIA.