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And say, whoa, listen, we need to be a little bit more careful about this because syria is more complicated in a lot of ways than iraq or afghanistan were. and this is a proxy wartimes ten. it s a proxy war with russia, iran, the kurds, the sunnis, the shias. this is not something you come in and out of in six months or a year. this is, perhaps, a decade and we could lose a lot in terms of both treasure and reputation if we get this wrong. let me ask you this question. there is talk about a no-fly zone. john mccain, senator john mccain has called for a no-fly zone. wall street journal reporting thursday the u.s. officials told the wall street journal the u.s. military proposal for arming the rebels calls for a limited no-fly zone inside syria. today ben rhodes, national security spokesperson for the white house downplayed that idea. do you think, are we worried that we re headed toward an inevitable escalation toward a no-fly zone if we take this first incremental step of arming ....
the president also will announce that we will be assisting the syrian rebels in syria by providing them with weapons and other assistance. the president of the united states had better understand that just supplying weapons is not going to change the equation on the ground of the balance of power. just to provide atidditional weapons to the syrian national army is not enough. mccain came out with this before the official white house announcement. it was his own little preemptive strike in the next phase of the syria debate. moments later, the escalating debate got even more amazing when mccain s democratic colleague, senator chris murphy from connecticut sent out this tweet. was on the senate floor to hear obama s spokesman john mccain announce military aid for syrian rebels. #strangeworld. a few hours later, senator murphy then released what i thought was a very thoughtful and measured response to this drumbeat for intervention ....
Saying, last week i expressed deep reservations about committing u.s. military resources to support these opposition forces which remain dangerously splintered and hold demonstrable ties to terrorist organizations. i urged the president to exercise restraint and consult closely with congress before undertaking any course of action to commit american military resources to syrian opposition forces. joining me now is senator chris murphy, democrat from connecticut and member of the senate foreign relations committee. he s been critical of the president s decision to commit u.s. military resources to support the opposition forces in syria. senator, thank you for joining me. i guess my first question for you was, what was your reaction to yesterday s announcement from the white house? well, i thought i had missed something when i heard senator mccain announce it on the senate floor, but when i scurried back to my office, i found that it was true. listen, i understand that the president ....
The rebels and it, quote, doesn t work because it doesn t change the balance of power? well there s the problem. given the fact we have waited this long, you can t just hand the rebels a bunch of automatic weapons and expect you re going to change the balance. mccain is right that you have to do much more than that. but a no-fly zone in syria is fundamentally different than providing air support in libya. you were talking about sophisticated russian-built air defense systems that are going to take a lot of american firepower to take down in order to allow for our planes to fly overhead in the first place. this is a very complicated, very expensive endeavor. and i am worried, a at the cost to americans in terms of money and lives to a no-fly zone and then to put powerful arms on the ground to change the power. al qaeda are intricately involved in the opposition. how do we make sure the wrong people don t get hands on those very powerful weapons? ....