Senator John McCain slipped into Syria Monday with a meeting with Syrian rebels. The GOP lawmaker has been one of the strongest advocates for increasing America's role in Syria and has become the highest ranking U.S. official to visit the country since civil war broke out more than two years ago.
Of all people, McCain knows what it's like to be in combat. He was a navy pilot in 1967 during the Vietnam and his plane was shot down and he was a POW for 5.5 years in the Hanoi Hilton. He knows that the U.S. didn't have a winning strategy to end the Vietnam War and that went on for years. He also remembers how the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been conducted by both the Bush and Obama administrations. We're still in the war in Afghanistan after being there since October 2001. The last two presidential administrations have shown that they aren't serious about winning wars. The last thing we need is to stick our nose where it doesn't belong in Syria. We need to end our involvement in the Middle East. We could do so if we make the Middle East irrelevant to our national security needs. One way to do that is to stop importing oil from the Middle East. The U.S. has enough natural resources to furnish our own oil. We don't need to be involving ourselves with the Middle East. Enough is enough.
McCain's position doesn't make sense. Consequently, he has been politically compromised and he keeps on endorsing intervention when it's not going to benefit the U.S. To read the full story, click on the above link from FoxNews.com.
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