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Chuck Hagel’s Senate hearing: Testy exchanges on key foreign policy issues
Chuck Hagel was forced to make repeated justifications of his positions on Iran, Israel and the Iraq war at a Senate confirmation hearing as Barack Obama’s next secretary of defense. The former senator was accused of holding “extreme views” and endangering US security, in testy exchanges before the armed services…
McCain cracks jokes about hostages and waterboarding
Senator John McCain, the US Navy veteran who was tortured during his years in a Vietnam prison, joked Tuesday about the prospect of a colleague being held hostage in Afghanistan and another being waterboarded. McCain made the remarks just days after a hostage drama in Algeria left dozens of hostages…
Watch live: McCain holds briefing on Syria
Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., conducts a briefing on the developments in Syria. Watch live, broadcast on Dec. 6. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy…
McCain: Obama weakness has led Mideast toward crisis
BOCA RATON, Florida — Four years of “failed leadership” by US President Barack Obama has dragged the Middle East to the edge of a major crisis that could dramatically destabilize the region, Senator John McCain warned Monday. McCain laid down a withering critique of the commander-in-chief’s foreign policy just hours…
McCain urges U.S.-led air war in Syria
WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain renewed calls Monday for US military action against Syria’s regime and said President Bashar al-Assad’s forces are increasingly deploying attack helicopters against rebels. Regime infantry and snipers have given way to tanks, artillery and attack helicopters as Assad seeks to crush a 15-month uprising, McCain…
McCain: U.S. military role after 2014 key to Afghan success
WASHINGTON — Ensuring a long-term US military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 will be a key to success or failure in the war against Taliban insurgents, Republican Senator John McCain said Wednesday. McCain, an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama’s planned withdrawal of most US troops from Afghanistan by the…
Senator McCain urges air strikes on Syria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States should lead an international effort to protect key population centers in Syria through air strikes on President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, Senator John McCain said on Monday. “The ultimate goal of air strikes should be to establish and defend safe havens in Syria, especially in…
McCain: Iraq ‘unraveling’ puts U.S. civilians at risk
WASHINGTON — A leading Republican senator warned Sunday that Iraq was “unraveling” in the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, putting at risk the thousands of American civilians in the country. Senator John McCain, who lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, blamed the deteriorating situation on…
McCain celebrates Kim Jong-Il’s arrival ‘in a warm corner of hell’
US Senator John McCain voiced satisfaction Monday that late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is “in a warm corner of hell” and called for efforts to bring an end to his family’s regime. McCain, a Republican lawmaker who was his party’s nominee for president in 2008, said that Kim subjected…
McCain chides Republican candidates on ‘torture’
Senior US Senator John McCain on Monday rebuked Republican presidential candidates who came out in favor of a harshinterrogation tactic known as waterboarding, bluntly calling it “torture.” “Very disappointed by statements at SC (South Carolina) GOP (Republican) debate supporting waterboarding. Waterboarding is torture,” McCain said on his official Twitter feed. Several of…
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