John McCain Supports Patriot Missiles in Turkey Aimed at Syria

Originally posted by Trustfund
Did the pro-missile people not read the article? McCain is war mongering. And trying to turn Syria into a Libya

Arizona Sen. John McCain has endorsed setting up Patriot missile batteries to enforce a no-fly zone in Syria, which the Republican believes will be critical to quell the violence that has raged in the war-torn country for more than 20 months.

Installing Patriot missiles in neighboring Turkey could provide rebels with the infrastructure they need to topple Bashar al-Assad's regime, says McCain, who is the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a retired Navy fighter pilot.

"Pilots are not going to fly into certain death. I don't care how brave they are," he says. "You shoot down one or two of them, and they're not going to fly there again. They may like Bashar al-Assad, but they like to live a little more."

Syrian rebels have called on NATO to establish and enforce a no-fly zone, a tactic that helped opposition fighters in Libya. Some countries worry this could drag them into the Syrian conflict, but McCain says this can be accomplished without "boots on the ground."

"I guarantee you, the first Syrian aircraft we shot down, that would be the last one to fly over a no-fly zone," he says.

Right, he wants to stop the war in Syria and save lives. Just cause he has a pair he is a war mongerer?

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Re Read the article. Thankfully no one listens to John McCain other then CNN and FOX News.