Posted on 07/09/2017 9:03:25 PM PDT by upchuck
Two senior Republican U.S. senators criticized Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Sunday for saying that Russia may have the "right approach" on Syria and for what they called his lack of focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"His statements about Syria really disturb me. No, (Russian President Vladimir) Putin does not have it right when it comes to Syria," Senator Lindsey Graham said.
In separate television interviews, Graham and Senator John McCain, prominent Republican foreign policy voices, took aim at Tillerson's remarks last week that Russia may have "got the right approach" and the United States the wrong approach to Syria.
Russia has backed President Bashar al-Assad in Syria's civil war, while the United States supports rebel groups trying to overthrow him.
McCain told CBS' "Face the Nation" that he "sometimes" regretted backing Tillerson's nomination by Republican President Donald Trump and that his comments on Russia being "right" on Syria made him emotional and upset.
"I know what the slaughter has been like. I know that the Russians knew that Bashar Assad was going to use chemical weapons. And to say that maybe we've got the wrong approach?" he said.
Both senators backed the nomination of Tillerson in January, even while expressing concern about his dealings with Russia when he was chief executive of ExxonMobil. (XOM.N)
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The Bobbsey Twins.
Uber RINO linda graham Pingh/t to martin_fierro for the graphic
The morons who think Assad is the worst guy on the planet, and set the middle east on fire to get him. This operation cause Benghazi and Syria and ISIS.
Good work chumps.
Tillerson is a breath of fresh air as Sec State.
McQueeg and his valet....
I”m getting so tired of these two twits who think they should be determining foreign policy for the U.S.
Same here. Didn’t even have to read the first paragraph to know it was Linda and Juan, looking to jockey for more Sunday morning face-time.
A jihad tag teem?
A jihad tag teem?
Probably just taking their marching orders from Soros.
These 2 don’t count. No respect either of them.
McCain and Graham would rather prefer Al-Qaeda run Syria because they don’t like Russia throwing its weight around in a client state.
McQueeg and McQueef.
Ditto. McCain and Graham are like two rotten peas in a pod.
Twiddledee and Twiddle-don’t-even-bother.
“The Bobbsey Twins.”
Exactly what I was thinking.
Dittos. I knew right away, it could only be them.
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