Posted on 10/04/2015 4:33:51 PM PDT by jimbo123
A growing number of Democrats are joining GOP voices in calling for a no-fly zone or a safe zone in Syria where civilians and opposition fighters can go without fear of attack — a step the Obama administration does not back.
The calls come after the spectacle of millions of desperate Syrian refugees fleeing to Europe, and an increasing sense that the Pentagon's program to train moderate rebels is failing.
They continued even after Russian aircraft entered Syrian airspace this week to go after groups fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad, including rebels backed by the U.S.
Former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Thursday called for no-fly zones in Syria, breaking with the administration a day after Russian bombs began dropping.
"I personally would be advocating now for a no-fly zone and humanitarian corridors to try to stop the carnage on the ground and from the air, to try to provide some way to stem the flow of refugees," she said an interview with an NBC affiliate.
Clinton’s endorsement of a no-fly zone puts her in line with Republican hawks
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Wow. Call ‘em the Gang of Mental Illness.
The crazy train is lining up new boxcars in DC as clueless politicians agitate for war with Russia over worthless sand in Syria...
Just go after ISIS from the air in eastern Syria, Big Time.
Just pull back and let the Russians and Syrian government do the heavy lifting.
Less chance of crossed wires that way.
No fly zones work when you have over powering air superiority. Russia is not Iraq.
This is the way the GOP always loses elections. They are considered stupid war mongers.
The GOP thinks this makes them look tough on National Security.
LOL
To which Putin will say Nyet!
Hammer and Anvil seems to be good tactics.
“Hammer and Anvil” only works when they are working together.
This is more like “hammer to hammer.” Someone is bound to whacked on the fingers.
Besides, why keep spending our money if the Sov, er, Russians are spending theirs?
Idiots all
To real war-hawks, it just makes the ‘Pubbies look stupid.
Now they want to go up and fly against Russia AND China? Idiots. (Bigger Idiots that caused this!)
I concur with other comments.
Morons!
Anything McCain wants has got to be a bad idea.
Let russia chase them east to Iraq and we can give em a highway of death treatment.
One of the justifications for going into Iraq was the decade old sanctions/no-fly zone were breaking down.
These people are going to get us all killed.
But the president has to do something.
This is the United States of America, not Luxemburg or Monaco.
If Obama doesn’t want to establish a no-fly zone to protect the ‘’good’’ rebels whom he’s vowed to arm and support, he should rescue them and bring them to the U.S. as refugees, not simply abandon them and leave them to be killed by the Russians.
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