John McCain today said he will not back a use-of-force resolution to be voted on by lawmakers – less than 24 hours after warning of a 'catastrophic' end to President Obama's Syria saga if Congress refused to back the proposal.
The Republican senator for Arizona said it was a mistake for the president to approach legislators in the first place, and said he believes the resolution is too weak in its current form.
But Obama shot back from across the Atlantic ocean during a trip to Sweden that Congress should do more than 'sit on the sidelines [and] snipe.'
A resolution crafted by New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez and Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker would limit military action to 90 days, and would make no provision for American ground troops entering Syria.
A McCain aide told MailOnline Wednesday that the senator 'does not support' that resolution.
McCain would vote 'no,' he said on NBC's Today show, if his only other option was 'to do something that really doesn’t change anything – in other words, some token strikes, and then some time later, [Assad] uses those chemical weapons again.'
'What then? Go through the same routine?'
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