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With the world waiting for a US verdict on who was responsible for downing Flight MH-17, Barack Obama now faces potentially the greatest test of his mettle as US presidentBy Peter Foster, Washington, 8:40PM BST 17 Jul 2014
Barack Obama was facing perhaps the toughest calls of his presidency last night as pressure mounted to take concrete action over the apparent shooting down of Flight MH-17 over Ukraine, with 23 American citizens feared among the dead.
As the world waited for an official US verdict on who was responsible for downing the plane, defence hawks were already warning that there would be "hell to pay" if Russia or its separatist proxies in eastern Ukraine were to blame.
Senator John McCain, the former Republican presidential candidate who has long argued for a more robust approach to Russian meddling in Ukraine, warned that the US should now consider providing significant military support to the government in Kiev.
"If it was a missile that was launched either by Russia or the 'separatists' which in my view are indivisible this would have the most profound repercussions," he told CNN.
"It would open the gates, finally, for our assisting the Ukrainians. Giving them some defensive weapons, sanctions would have to be imposed as a result of that, and that would just be the beginning."
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Spazito
(50,454 posts)The media can be assured McCain will do two things, blame Obama and beat the war drums, that's why the go to him for comment. He has nothing of substance to say but can be counted on to repeat ad nauseam what he always says.
oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)With 743 civilians killed just in the past month since Assad's "reelection"? And millions of displaced persons in refugee status? Do we care about that anymore? It appears not.
From today's paper:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/17/world/middleeast/assad-sworn-in-for-third-term-as-syrian-president.html?ref=world
Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)oldandhappy
(6,719 posts)Good post, thanks. Syrians do not contribute to American political parties!! The angst over the Malaysian plane will be t-folk driven and the lack of response to invasion in Gaza is money driven. We ignore Syria, Somalia, and lots of other places. I am one who thinks we cannot be the police for the world. AND, I think we need to call out anyone who forces a situation whereby they then can claim just cause to invade. I used to be pro-Israeli but no more.
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geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)No military action.
But, time to put Ukraine into NATO and to enact maximum sanctions, with the goal being to hurt Russia's economy as much as possible.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)WilliamPitt
(58,179 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,476 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)WE MUST BOMB SOMEBODY ASAP!
Rex
(65,616 posts)I swear if we survive to 2100 with tea bagging, conservdicks like McSame still in politics...it will be 100 Christmas miracles!
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)and published prematurely
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)He was served a bad burger last night and this morning it was too cloudy. Obama needs to get involved and bomb something.