John McCain actually said...

I hope that you and Dr. Hicks might have an opportunity to go to the refugee camps on the Turkish border and hear from the now 25,000 people...

Our intention and our effort was to find out if there were any breaches or possible evidence of breaches of national security.

This is an issue that really is of some great importance from a national security standpoint.

So our answer then is not to provide them with arms or means to defend themselves? It is better to use diplomatic and economic measures.