McCain: Rebels fighting Assad feel abandoned by US
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US Sen. John McCain says the cause of rebels fighting Syria's President Bashar Assad has been obscured in the rapid military and diplomatic events following a chemical weapons attack near Damascus. McCain says, "I feel very badly for my friends in the Free Syrian Army today."
McCain said he's not against negotiating to defuse the chemical weapons issue but argues, "There's nothing that will drive Syrians more into the hands of extremists than to feel they have been abandoned by the West," adding that Obama should have acted more forcefully against Assad. (AP)
