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Days after his return from a secret trip to visit rebels in Syria, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., reflected on the terrib
stanley mug le, unfair fight he said is being fought in the war-torn country, and kept pressure high on the Obama administration to increase its assistance to opposition forces fighting the regime of President Bashir Assad. They do not understand why we won t help them, McCain said in an interview with CNN, of the rebel forces with whom he met during his brief trip in the country. When you look at the faces of these people and hear their stories, so many of them have lost family members. So m
stanley cup any of them have lost friends. This is a pretty bloody, bloody business that they ve been in. Assad: First Russian missile shipment now in Syria What are Obama s options on Syria McCain, who has for months been calling for the Obama administration to provide arms to the rebels, acknowledged the risks inherent to such a step. Of the risk that U.S. weapons might fall into the wrong hands, McCain suggested identifying th
stanley tumbler ose people who are on our side. General [Salim] Idris has a very sizeable force. He has battalion commanders that he s in communications with, McCain said, of the leader of the Supreme Military Council of the Free Syrian Army coalition of rebel groups, with whom he met. Is it a perfect organization Of course not, because they re fighting as an insurgency. No insurgencies are perfect... We can help the right people Aete Lesson not learned: Partisan bickering rages on
TRADE AGREEMENTS....Jared
stanley drink bottle Bernstein writes today about global trade deals that hurt some workers and tries to answer the $64,000 question: What would you tell some guy who just lost his good, middle-class, union, high-wage and benefits job What s your program to help him Here s what I d say to the guy in the question: We can t stop globalization, but we can take its benefits and plough them back into repairing the damage it has done to you. That includes access to quality health care for you and your family, expanding and keeping your pension safe, and some serious retraining.This will mean letting the Bush high-end tax cuts sunset a point Obama agrees on 151;
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stanley quencher ue to help you. It will also mean major health care reform.We ll also work to behind the scenes to pushback on the downsides of trade. We ll push the Fed to maintain truly tight labor markets, we ll put enforceable labor standards in our trade deals, and we ll pushback against countries that manage their currencies to keep our exports out. Roughly speaking, this sounds great. I don t want to stop trade, which is fundamentally a good thing. I d just like to make sure that we don t have one group that gets all the benefits while another group pays all the price.My only problem with Bernstein s answer, then, is this: It s more or less the same answer we ve been hearing for the past 15 years. Unfortunately, in case after case, after we end up voting for trade agreements based on pr
