John McCain actually said...

"I think that if we could assure that the weapons were going to the right people and that we would not have to face them in the future, that it would be helpful to removing the regime."

"So we really aren't putting pilots at risk and there's not a requirement to take out the air defenses around Damascus."

"I hope you will follow in their footsteps, and I would remind you again on the issue of Syria."

"The United States and our allies could identify and destroy quite a fair amount of Assad's operational aircraft on the ground using precision strike and standoff weaponry."