WASHINGTON — Pressure mounted yesterday for President Obama to do more than just send guns to Syrian rebels.
“The whole region is about to blow up,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) declared on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“Our foreign policy to me — I don’t understand it. Whatever it is is not working . . . We need to create a no-fly zone.”
The White House last week said it will send weapons to Syria because it is convinced that President Bashar al-Assad’s regime used chemical weapons.
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, also called for a bigger US role and said Obama is “headed in that direction.”
“You have to consider other options with your allies as to whether or not, for example, you might consider ripping up airfields so that Assad’s air force cannot take off,” Menendez told CNN’s “State of the Union.”