John McCain Calls for Obama to Act in Syria

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Sen. John McCain took on Syria and encouraged President Barack Obama to take action in the troubled country, reports NBC News.  Suggested Reading Folks Online Are Clowning Kai Cenat For Reading ‘Atomic Habits’ But Here’s Why They Need to Stop Elon Musk Made $178 Billion in Two Days — Here’s What…

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, Sen. John McCain took on Syria and encouraged President Barack Obama to take action in the troubled country, reports NBC News

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, urged the president to begin identifying a strategy to secure Syria’s stockpiles of chemical weapons should the government fall.

“Be prepared with an international force to go in and secure these stocks of chemical, and perhaps biological, weapons,” McCain said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

But, mindful of Americans’ war-weariness following nearly a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, McCain cautioned against sending U.S. troops to Syria, warning that it could prompt resentment from Syrians. 

Read more at NBC News.

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