Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Arizona Sen. John McCain are once again banging heads – this time over whether to arm Syrian rebels – in the latest dispute that underscores a divide in the GOP and intensifies the fight over what the party will represent in 2016 and beyond.

Paul, a first-term senator and Tea Party favorite surging in popularity, took the latest shot by opposing aid to the rebels – a key part of McCain’s plan to end the two-year Syrian civil war in which 70,000 civilians and others have been killed.

“It is very clear that any attempt to aid the Syrian rebels would be complicated and dangerous, precisely because we don't know who these people are,” Paul wrote in an opinion piece earlier this week. “The situation in Syria is certainly dire. … Al Qaeda is making confirmed inroads into the country. No one wants to see Syria become a bastion of extremism. But like other American interventions in the past, U.S. involvement could actually help the extremists.”
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The 76-year-old McCain appears to have cut the divide between the older and newer Capitol Hill Republicans in March when he called Paul and newly elected Texas Sen. Ted Cruz “wacko birds” for their firebrand style of politics and their nearly 13-hour filibuster to demand Obama make clear his rulings for drone strikes on U.S. soil.
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“The GOP has grown stale and moss covered,” Paul said at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference. “I don’t think we need to name any names, do we?”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/...publican-party/

We don't even know who is the enemy in Syria. John McCain is wrong to want the United States in another Vietnam catastrophe.

Long past time for this old war monger to STFU!