John McCain actually said...

Can Patriot missiles shoot down Scud missiles?

Of course you are aware that the Russians continue their flow of weapons into Bashar Assad's forces; and even now, later reports that the Ir...

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 ...

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