Posted on 12/04/2016 12:30:35 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Congress authorizes Trump to arm Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft missiles
The House voted for the first time today to explicitly authorize the incoming Donald Trump administration to arm vetted Syrian rebels with anti-aircraft missiles.
Summary Today, the House passed a defense bill that conditionally allows the provision of MANPADs to anti-Syrian regime forces.
Author Julian Pecquet Posted December 2, 2016
While the language in the annual defense bill also creates restrictions on the provision of the controversial weapons, it represents a win for Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., a fervent advocate of helping the rebels resist President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies. The Senate is expected to pass the bill next week.
Until now, the transfer of man-portable air-defense systems, or MANPADs, had been implicitly authorized in the absence of an outright ban. Critics, however, view the new provision as tantamount to a policy recommendation for the president-elect.
"I'm more afraid of Congress on this issue than I am of Trump,” said Robert Naiman, the policy director at Just Foreign Policy, a liberal advocacy group that lobbied for a ban. “I think Congress is trying to tie Trump's hands against making a realistic deal with Russia to end the Syrian civil war. And they are trying to pressure him in the direction of not doing that," he told Al-Monitor.
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Mattis is well known in military and foreign policy circles for his aggressive determination to take on America’s foes, notably Iran, including in Syria and Iraq. Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee as far back as January 2015, however, he opined that the time for supporting moderate rebel fighters against Assad's forces had "passed."
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He isn't thinking right, or desperate.
Nuclear war follows.
McCain is in denial that the globalist NWO foreign policy is now dead.
I doubt that Trump wants to even do this and it most assuredly is NOT something high on his first 1p00 days "to do" list!
He wouldn’t in a million years. His campaign was wholly based on being against this insanity.
Plus is it evil to wonder when mccain is going to drop?
He could have retired and lived a nice life. But he stayed even though he is insane at this point and hasn’t a clue as to what’s going on in the real world.
But he’s a Vet and former POW so I wish him the best.
If any of these idiots were that stupid, then on day one of the manpad release....we’d probably see two US fighters shot down.
McCain needs to be retired.
McPain is a total psychopath who wants to see the world burn.
Mercifully this ghoul was not elected President...though we had to endure Obama.
I have never prayed for a melanoma before.
Until McCain.
All for the best...mccain would have pushed us to war with russia
This is my feeling about McCain *AND* Romney.
Rebels = ISIS, Al-Nusera and Al-Qaeda.
All the same group with the same black flag.
McCain = 100% Insane
if true, then damn these gopes. what sane person puts missiles in the hands of islamic extremist belligerents? only a complete imbecile would do this.
Hillary, Obama, Kerry were/are all for it.
The non-ISIS, non-Al_Qaeda “rebels” are the weakest side in Syria. We don’t get to watch them win this civil war any more than we get to watch the Minnesota Twins (59 wins, 103 losses) win this year’s World Series. Our choices are the brutal dictator (Assad), or the terrorists (either ISIS or Al Qaeda).
As Trump says, we don’t know who these people really are. Except Muslims who practice taqqiya about ecerything. No way I’d give manpads to them.
and obama has two months left to implement ryan, mconnell and mccains’ lameduck lunacy. these people are all corrupt and beneath contempt.
Syrian rebels?
You mean ISIS supporters?
Any arms sent to Syrian rebels end up on the arms black market the day after they are received.
Its an excellent way to spread MANPADS through out the middle east . They will be used to bring down commercial airliners.
Really a dopey idea.
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