Senator Corker is another Republican fool. The United States has no strategic or even moral reason to involve itself in Middle East War. The Syrian ‘rebels’ are not ‘good guys.’ They are Islamists and Al Qaeda. And they kill Christians, whom Assad always protected. Pity the remnant Christians in the Middle East.
Look at the strategic results of Obama’s middle east policies:
Iraq: an emerging civil war.
Libya: Benghazi
Egypt: everyone hates us.
There must be an alternative so we can rid ourselves of fools like Corker.
There was an alternative, but you got rid of him.
Before Corker got the GOP Chair on the foreign relations committee, the chairmanship was held for a long time Richard Lugar, who also happens to oppose intervening in Syria. And as it was Lugar had also been opposed to intervening in Libya.
The NeoCons tried for a long time to get Lugar out of the chair but never could, so they spent a lot of money defeating him in the primary, after which the Dem won the general election, and Corker was next in seniority for the chairmanship.
We are still talking about this now here in late August, but On May 22 the Senate Foreign Relations Committee actually took a vote on whether or not to intervene in Syria. Fifteen votes to intervene and 3 votes against intervening.
The 15 yes votes were dems and GOPers and the 3 no votes were 2 dems and 1 GOP.
The vote was along foreign policy doctrines lines.
Voting yes were republican Realists, Democrat Realists, NeoCon Republicans, and Liberal Interventionist Democrats.
Voting no were two antiwar pacifists democrats(Wyden and Udall) plus the right wing isolationist Randy Paul. Then these three would later be joined by another isolationist, Republican Senator Mike Lee, to introduce legislation into the Senate that opposed intervening in Syria.
As for Obama, he never wanted to intervene in Syria and for a long time the Realists were opposed to intervening, but gradually many/most of the Realists shifted and now support intervening. Obama was able to hide behind the Realists for a long time but when they shifted to supporting intervention, Obama has no place to hide and will be forced to intervene. The only question is to what degree will he intervene.