MCCAIN: ARM SYRIAN REBELS - or why McCain is still stupid...

The following article appeared today on Infowars.com – see original post here:

http://www.infowars.com/mccain-arm-syrian-rebels-to-shoot-down-russian-planes/

Original text quoted below:

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McCain initially responded to Fox News host Neil Cavuto’s question about whether he would shoot down Russian planes by saying no, but then went on to assert that he would arm Syrian rebels to carry out that very same task.

“I might do what we did in Afghanistan many years ago, to give those guys the ability to shoot down those planes, that equipment is available,” said McCain, adding that the Free Syrian Army would shoot down the planes, “just like the Afghans shot down Russian planes after Russia invaded Afghanistan.”

McCain is referring to how the United States armed Islamic militants in the 1970s, a policy that led to the rise of the Taliban, Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood and Osama Bin Laden.

Senator McCain is opposed to Russia’s bombing of ISIS terrorists because he believes that Moscow is using this explanation as a cover to attack US-backed Syrian rebel forces who are trying to topple Bashar Al-Assad.

Although the rebels have fought against ISIS, there are numerous accounts of the FSA and other jihadist groups handing over their weapons to Al-Qaeda affiliates and in some cases defecting outright to join ISIS. The FSA has also been accused of a number of war crimes, some of which are on a par with ISIS.

McCain also made reference to claims that the Russian air strikes had claimed civilian lives, although Moscow vehemently denies this, with spokesperson for the Russian Defense Ministry Igor Konashenkov asserting, “Russian jets did not use weapons on civilian infrastructure or in its vicinity.”

Russian Maria Zakharova, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman also claimed that western media outlets were circulating fake pictures of dead civilians in order to impugn Moscow.

Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer tactical bombers reportedly struck eight ISIS targets, including key coordination centers situated in a mountainous region that were completely destroyed.

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Now in relation to this…could someone remind McCain that Osama and Al-Qaeda were formed from those same Mujahideen resistance fighters.  We trained and equipped them to fight Russians in Afghanistan and when the Russians left, we abandoned them…hence Al-Qaeda and the Taliban formed and became our own enemies.  So I ask you, as a logical and sound-minded individual reader…is giving these people advanced anti-aircraft weapons really a good idea…considering how well it worked out for us last time [aka-911]?  Let us all take a moment and thank God Almighty, that McCain is not and never will be the President of these United States.  I just wish his supporters would stop supporting him so he would disappear altogether.  The man is obviously an idiot.  Sure, John…let’s do what we did in the eighties and make ourselves a brand new Osama bin Laden. Why do people even listen to this man anymore?

And on a secondary note, there’s an error in the original article.  It states we armed islamic militants in the 1970′s.  That is incorrect, at least according to known records.  We began arming Afghanistani resistance under Reagan’s administration after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, in force, on December 27, 1979.  The first elements of US assistance [Stinger ground to air missiles] were not claimed or used openly until September 1986.