McCain: Send U.S. Special Forces to Rescue Nigerian Girls

[undeterred]

The United States should send in special forces to rescue the hundreds of girls kidnapped by Boko Haram—whether the Nigerian government gives permission or not, according to Sen. John McCain.


“If they knew where they were, I certainly would send in U.S. troops to rescue them, in a New York minute I would, without permission of the host country,” McCain told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. “I wouldn’t be waiting for some kind of permission from some guy named Goodluck Jonathan,” he added, referring to the president of Nigeria.

Of course, it’s not exactly a surprise that McCain holds this view. He’s been a longtime advocate for increased U.S. military activity in crises around the globe—from Syria to Ukraine. McCain said that if he were the American president, he would already be doing several things to respond to the kidnapping of the over 200 girls by the Nigerian terrorist group that the Obama administration has so far declined to do. Those measures include prepositioning U.S. special forces to be ready to enter Nigeria and rescue the girls if the opportunity arose. He said that the United Nations charter authorized military intervention on behalf of the girls because their abduction rose to the level of “crimes against humanity.”

“The United Nations Charter recognized crimes against humanity, this fits into the category of crimes against humanity, and that gives any nation the license if they can to stop a crime against humanity, the same reason we should have if we could have freed the people at Dachau or Auschwitz,” McCain said.

The U.N. Charter does not explicitly mention crimes against humanity. But the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum does, stating that crimes against humanity “are particularly odious offenses in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of human beings.”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/13/mccain-send-u-s-special-forces-to-rescue-nigerian-girls.html

Can you imagine if this guy had become president?

[arely staircase]

1. we know where they are? nt

[pscot]

9. Our eye is on the sparrow

[undeterred]

2. John McCain must know...

[tblue37]

3. If he had become president, we would have a president who cinsiders

it acceptable to *mock* the name if a friendly nation's leader, and by implication, of course, those "weird furrin'" cultures that give such names to people.

How wonderfully diplomatic of him. We would have had a diplomatic crusus ever 5 minutes with his and Caribou Barbie's big mouths shooting iff all the time. Our "leaders" would sound as bad as North Korea's!

[TwilightGardener]

4. "Permission from SOME GUY"...you mean, the President of Nigeria?

Seriously, that nasty undiplomatic little show of contempt and dismissal toward the head of another nation (based on his name, the stature of his country, and probably his race) tells you all you need to know about how McCain would have been as President--complete national and international disaster. You chose wisely, America.

[undeterred]

5. Exactly

Making fun of the name of a president from another country and disrespecting his position is about as trashy as a politician can get.

[Vattel]

6. He would have been a disaster for sure.

[jberryhill]

7. You know... THAT one

[TwilightGardener]

15. LOL, I'd forgotten that.

[think]

8. Diplomacy, respect for national sovereignty, & respect for other world leaders

seem to be missing from Mr. McCain's version of political discourse and action.

[JackRiddler]

10. Is this before or after we send them to Ukraine...

to join up with his Nazi friends in Kiev?

[malaise]

12. Simultaneously dear Sir

[mfcorey1]

14. No, that is after they return from the Bundy Ranch.

[Orsino]

11. I suspect they are already involved...

...and if they pull an oh-dark-thirty, now McCain can take credit for the idea.

[MisterP]

13. we'd be involved in Nigeria, Georgia, Ukraine, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Philippines, Pakistan,

Yemen, and Syria instead of Ukraine, Libya, Afghanistan, Somalia, Philippines, Pakistan, Yemen, and Syria

[Stingray steve]

16. Ya MCCain knows where they are at

But won't tell us unless we elect him president