Republican Sen. Richard Lugar expressed support for President Obama’s handling of the situation in Syria Sunday the same day Sen. John McCain harshly criticized Obama’s approach to the situation. “The president has been very cautious,” Lugar said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” “I think properly so.”
Lugar’s comments came in response to a question about Obama’s leadership in addressing the conflict in Syria:
I think that he has been very cautions. And I think that he’s cautions because he’s in the process of withdrawing our troops along with NATO from Afghanistan, pivoting our policy toward China and the east, more toward a situation of using robots — the ability to not to have to send in troops. It’s a difficult situation. So when you talk about Syria, and you talk about troops or intervention, the president has been very cautious. I think properly so.
Earlier Sunday, McCain strongly attacked Obama’s handling of Syria as well as other conflicts in the region, stating that Obama’s foreign policy represented a “shameful episode in American history.”
