syriana

Meanwhile, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona) called for the arming of the Syrian opposition, to defend itself from Bashar al-Assad's brutal crackdown. "It is time we gave the (opposition) the wherewithal to fight back and stop the slaughter," McCain said at a Cairo news conference on Monday, Agence-France Press reported.


"I think it's premature to take a decision to arm the opposition movement in Syria because I would challenge anyone to clearly identify for me the opposition movement in Syria at this point," Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview broadcast Sunday. "There are indications that al Qaeda is involved and that they're interested in supporting the opposition. ... And until we're a lot clearer about, you know, who they are and what they are, I think it would be premature to talk about arming them."

CIA headquarters -- somewhere in Virginia, brainstorming session:

"what are we gonna do about syria? Hilary Clinton is getting sick of seeing the bloodshed!"

"oh the humanity! what about all those wars in africa? and all the bloodshed there?"

"yeah but those people aren't even remotely white..."

"okay, how about this: we set up a distraction for the president and the liberal media, there's gonna be a teapot convention coming up in Boston, then we'll stage some kind of presidential fancy dress party -- the president and the liberal media will be completely absorbed by it...."

"who will the President dress as?"

"we'll come back to that... anyway then we have the Saudis start arming people there in Syria...."

"who should they arm?"

"i don't know that's a tough one... did you see after the war in Iraq started? it's like everyone had guns and RPGs there.... like they were just giving them away on every street corner???"

"yeah!!!!!!! what was up with that? where did they get all those weapons from?"

"who knows? anyway, we also can find definite rebel leadership potential in syria's prison system..."

"really? tell me more...."

"wait a second! what about al-qaeda? how can we justify arming them? and how can john mccain, hilary clinton AND hamas all be on the same page? it doesn't make sense!"

"al-qaeda! don't talk to me about al-qaeda.... lawrence comes to work with come dribbling down her stockings and it's al-qaeda's fault.... someone eats hoopers turkey sandwiches for lunch and al qaeda gets the blame.... al qaeda!"