Senators John McCain (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) released a joint statement today:
“We commend Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders for the role they played in reaching today’s ceasefire. We also are encouraged by the responsible leadership role played by the President of Egypt and his government. President Morsi deserves credit for successfully bringing an end to the violence and preventing further loss of life on both sides.
So…Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been shuttling like mad between Jerusalem and Cairo to broker this agreement. What do the three Senators have to say for the Obama Administration’s efforts?
Above all, the recent fighting in Gaza underscores that this is a moment in history when the future of the Middle East has never been less certain – and when the actions or inaction of the United States will be critical to determining what path this vital region takes. …[W]hat happens in the Middle East will impact America’s vital national security interests for the foreseeable future, and stronger, smarter American leadership is desperately needed. There is no pivoting away from that fact.
Wait…so, they are praising leadership coming from Israel and Egypt, and they turn around and, essentially, apologize for the weak and dumb American leadership?
That’s, like…practically an apology tour!
Why do these three stooges hate America?
Wait!!! These Republicans are praising a member of the.. the.. the..
(gasp!)
????M U S L I M * B R O T H E R H O O D?????
Oh noes!!!!! Next thing you know the trolls will be denouncing these Republicans as turncoats! What will Hot Air say? What will Faux Snooze say??? What will Pajamas Media say???
“Why do these three stooges hate America?”
Because they’re stupid assholes who didn’t learn a thing from the drubbing their party took on Nov. 6.
@1 Criticize their own tribe? You’re joking, of course.
Republicans have never progressed beyond tribal behavior. At the rate they’re going they never will.
Puddy is an example of being tribal. The loss of Alan West was a loss for Black People. Not a loss for conservatives, not a loss for Republicans, a loss for his tribe, a loss for Black People.
@5 I’d like to gently suggest you keep the tribes straight. Puddy identifies with the Wingnut Tribe, not the Black People Tribe.
Absolutely wonderful! (not) The first three paragraphs of the statement were actually really good. But the last paragraph really sucked, because of the unfortunate decision to stab Obama and Clinton in the back.
Grandpa Walnuts and little liar Lindsey once again showing they know nothing.
Cease-fire came after hard-fought diplomatic battle
When it comes to ridiculously pivoting away from facts the sad clown circus of Grandpa Walnuts and little liar Lindsey take the cake.
What the hell are our national security interests in the Middle East?
@9 Rumpelstiltskin, Oil.
@9 and 10: And it’s officially termed the Carter Doctrine. In addition to wearing more sweaters and solar, Carter also established access to middle east oil as a national security priority.
Central Command, CentCom, which represents about a third of the defense budget in terms of ops, was the result. The rest is very sordid history.
Who cares? Please stop acting like the Republicans in the senate are in anyway relevant to anything in modern America. They’re not.
That’s half way around the world from us. We should spend less time worrying about “over there” and more time (and money) worrying about “over here.”
@9,11
Miss read the post @9 at first, thought it said what about our, not what are our.
We get about 25% of our imports from the Middle East. Japan gets a lot more and I don’t see much in the way of the Japanese navy in that area.
@11 it started with FDR who promised to provide security to the Sheik whatever his name was during WWII. Carter just picked up on it.
We need to just get the hell out and if the place blows up, well tough ….
We first have to find a substitute for oil and then adopt it – fully.. The world economy currently runs on oil and other fossil fuels.
Sorry the world is a little more complicated than some would wish.
You do see Japanese at Treasury bond auctions..
Republicans are scum.
@ 16 If we weren’t wasting dollars with the military in that part of the world we wouldn’t have to sell the Japanese our Treasury notes.
Let me get this straight. We borrow from other nations like China and Japan and then we send our military to defend the flow of oil for those same countries.
The real nightmare is that Netanyahu will drag us into an unnecessary war by attacking Iran to preempt their nuclear ambitions, whatever they are. Iran is our natural ally, made temporarily hostile by thirty five years of rule by our puppet Shah. The Israeli West Bank land grab and enslavement of the Palestinians has used up their reservoir of holocost sympathy.
Y’all may be unaware that US is reopening the bases here in the Philippines because China is claiming the whole South China sea, all the islands therein, including parts of the Philippines, Vietnam and Cambodia, Brunei and Malayasia. I doubt that this makes the US news.
I am happy about the US military revitalization. This affects the US far more than you think. If China is successful in this gross piracy, MAJOR shipping lanes fall under thyeir control, including commerce to the US.
18 – And they buy our debt which keeps taxes on our rich low so they continue to own America instead of selling it to the highest bidder.