John McCain is back in his element in Turkey. Meeting with Syrian rebels (who are a part of ISIS) again, like he did late last year. McCain is clueless is he thinks the Syrian rebels aren’t a part of ISIS, but we already knew that. I wonder how much these middle-east junkets that McCain keeps take is costing the tax payers.
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed for increasing aid to moderate rebel groups after meeting Syrian opposition leaders in Turkey Wednesday, warning that delays would “fuel the growing danger” to U.S. security.
McCain said pro-Western Syrian forces were fighting a “two-front war” against both Syrian strongman Bashar Assad and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Sunni militant group that has captured huge swaths of both countries.
“Further reluctance to support moderate Syrian opposition forces in fighting more effectively against both Assad and ISIS will only fuel the growing danger that the current threats in Syria and Iraq now pose to the United States and our national interests,” warned McCain.
McCain said he met with representatives from the main opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, as well as the interim government, activists and commanders from the Free Syria Army.“These leaders provided firsthand accounts of the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation on the ground inside Syria and how the recent offensive by ISIS in Iraq is shifting dynamics on the battlefield in favor of extremists in both countries,” he said.