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Title: John McCain tramples on Rand Paul’s foreign policy cred
Source: The Blaze
URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/0 ... and-pauls-foreign-policy-cred/
Published: Apr 7, 2017
Author: Carlos Garcia
Post Date: 2017-04-08 07:05:15 by Gatlin
Keywords: None
Views: 1094
Comments: 10

Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) shot back at his fellow Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for demanding that President Trump ask for Congressional approval for the airstrikes he ordered on a Syrian airfield Thursday. He made the comments on CNN Friday to Wolf Blitzer.

Blitzer read Paul’s statement about the airstrike to McCain and asked for his reaction: “While we all condemn the atrocities in Syria, the United States was not attacked. The President needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the Constitution, and I call on him to come to Congress for a proper debate. Our prior interventions in this region have done nothing to make us safer, and Syria will be no different.”

“I don’t really react to Senator Paul,” McCain said disdainfully, “we’re just too different, and he doesn’t really have any real influence in the United States Senate.”

Blitzer reminded him that many other Senators agreed with Paul, and McCain said he would talk to them but not address Paul’s statement.

“So you don’t even want to respond to that,” Blitzer tried to ask again.

“Pardon me, I don’t pay any attention frankly, to what Senator Paul says,” McCain reiterated his disdain.

“But tell me why you disagree with him so much,” Blitzer asked.

“Because he’s wrong,” McCain replied.

“Just on this issue or a whole bunch of other issues?” Blitzer responded.

“Every other issue that I know of, that has to do with national security,” McCain answered.

McCain said that he wasn’t surprised by the attack for several reasons. “I got a call before the launch from Mattis and also from Kelly,” he said, “but when I talked to [President Trump] the morning before, I could tell that he was deeply concerned. Now, to the point where I thought it was entirely possible that he would decide to act on the advice of his national security team.”

McCain also said that if Trump followed his advice to press on against President Bashar al-Assad, that he wouldn’t need Congressional approval for that either.

“He does not,” he said about needing approval from Congress. “President Reagan didn’t need it when after the bombing at a disco in Berlin that killed Americans, striking Libya. But if this is a long term campaign, then I think we oughta examine it.”

“But I’ll tell you the practical problems,” he explained. “The practical problems is, and I’ve dealt with this issue for a long time, and that is, it’s called the War Powers Act, is the president is the commander in chief. And he proposes, Congress disposes, as far as money is concerned. But as far as the actual mechanics of the war are concerned, there’s never been agreement. The War Powers Act has never been challenged in the courts because every president, Republican and Democrat, has been afraid that it was going to be ruled unconstitutional.”

Rand Paul has been an outspoken critic of any military action made without Constitutional approval, a position that not many members of Congress have agreed with publicly.

Trump ordered the strike on a Syrian airfield in retaliation for a chemical attack on civilians many blame on President Bashar al-Assad. Secretary of State Tillerson said there was no doubt that Assad was guilty of the chemical attacks.

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From The Hill

McCain: Rand Paul doesn't have any influence in the Senate.

McCain is one the Senate's most vocal defense hawks and has called on the Trump administration to use additional airstrikes to ground Syria's entire air force. He has told reporters that he thinks the administration currently has legal authority to carry out the strikes.

Paul is a libertarian-leaning Republican senator who frequently sides with liberal Democrats on military and foreign policy issues. He's demanded that Trump get congressional authority before taking any additional action in Syria.

The two frequently disagree on military and defense issues and have launched a string of rhetorical attacks at each other over the past month.

McCain accused Paul of helping Russian President Vladimir Putin after the Kentucky Republican objected to setting up a vote on a treaty allowing Montenegro to join NATO.

"The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin," McCain said from the Senate floor.

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-08   7:16:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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POLITICO: From McCain: Syria strike is ‘eight years in the making’

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-08   7:23:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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Market Watch: McCain keeps eye on North Korea as Trump strikes Syria

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-08   7:27:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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Breitbart: McCain: Missile Strikes ‘the Beginning of a Departure from the Failed Policies of the Last 8 Years’

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-08   7:31:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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FOX News: McCain Calls for Renewed Support for Free Syrian Army, Establishment of No-Fly Zones

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-08   7:34:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Gatlin (#0)

Rand Paul has been an outspoken critic of any military action made without Constitutional approval...

Good for Rand Paul... Those jackass hypocritical congresscritters want to flip-flop & give Trump free reign on military actions that they'd crucify Obama. Such partisan bullshit should not determine appropriate use of our military.

Willie Green  posted on  2017-04-08   9:45:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Gatlin (#0)

Given all the insults the two have exchanged (including the Stain alleging that Rand was working for Putin and Rand's retorts that McCain is a poster child for term limits), this should surprise no one.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-08   10:10:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Tooconservative (#7)

Given....this should surprise no one.

Two worthless POS acting like 6-year olds and urban cowboys with: “All hat and no cattle.”

Gatlin  posted on  2017-04-08   11:20:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Gatlin (#8)

It just isn't news that they hate each others' guts.

Tooconservative  posted on  2017-04-08   11:36:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Gatlin (#0)

Crazy Juan McCain! He is a rabid warmongering asshole!

What a stellar record he had in Viet Nam. If the commies hadn't captured his ass the Navy would have no planes left. He, then, was a true anti-hero.

Liberals are a lot like Slinkys, they're good for nothing but they bring a smile to your face as you shove them down the stairs.

HomerBohn  posted on  2017-04-08   12:02:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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