re: #64 darthstar

ISIS was the Syrian rebels McCain wanted to arm.

He found a new group to back once he found out that the bunch we wanted to be buddies with and give weapons to were worse than AlQueda:

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) pressed for increasing aid to moderate rebel groups after meeting Syrian opposition leaders in Turkey Wednesday, warning that delays would “fuel the growing danger” to U.S. security.

McCain said pro-Western Syrian forces were fighting a “two-front war” against both Syrian strongman Bashar Assad and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a Sunni militant group that has captured huge swaths of both countries.

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Nothing could go wrong with this new plan!