than 90 people including more than 30 children. you can see the bodies just stacked up like cordwood here. and the white house apparent desided to start vetting some of the rebels and perhaps to let other arab countries arm them. is that enough? of course, not. and it is only about a year too late. this is a shameful episode in american history. it began back in 2009 when we refused when the president of the united states refused to speak up on behalf of the demonstrators in the treats of tehran and gone from one episode to another. here over a year and now talking about possibly vetting some people. look, nearly 10,000 people have died. this is a brutal regime of incredible proportions and by the way, if bashar asaad failed it it would be the greatest flow to iran in the last 25 years because it would cut off hezbollah. et cetera. horrible things are happening in syria. this administration has a federal government feckless foreign policy which abandons foreign policy. i
which side has the winning message. and our power player of the week. a remarkable story of devotion to country and sacrifice you won t want to miss, all right now on fox news sunday. chris: and hello again on this memorial day weekend from fox news in washington. as we he remember those who have given their lives defending our country, we continue to face foreign policy challenges. here to tackle all that is senator john mccain. and senator, become back to fox news sunday. thanks for having me on, especially on memorial day. there has been as you well know another ms. query i massan syria. government forces killed more than 90 people including more than 30 children. you can see the bodies just stacked up like cordwood here. and the white house apparent desided to start vetting some of the rebels and perhaps to let other arab countries arm them. is that enough? of course, not. and it is only about a year too late. this is a shameful episode in american history. it
controlled from president asaad. the heaviest security presence since the unrest began. syrian government is now considering lifting emergency law that has been in place since 1963, at least it says so. in egypt, the former interior minister and other top security officials are now being charged with murder and attempted murder of hundreds of protesters during the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak last month. 300 demonstrators were killed in those clashes. mubarak could also face similar charges. in israel, government air strikes hammered the gaza strip overnight after recent rocket and morter attacks on southern israel. israel is blaming palestinian militants for yesterday s bombing in jerusalem. defense secretary gates is in israel today. he arrived today and says that israel has the right to defend itself. in yemen, the leader of the nation s largest tribe is backing calls for president ali abdul salsa saleh sto step down
against his own people and bashar asaad has opened up syria a bit and we ve been hopeful that we, the united states, of forging stronger ties with syria to use it as a wedge against iran, but we haven t gotten very far yet. but i think there s reason to worry across the arab world. i think in the words of a scholar at the wilson center, aaron david miller, we re seeing an arab winter in parts of the arab world and a spring, hopefully, in a few parts of the arab world. let s talk about libya, because as a longtime member of congress, you know these relationships well. the president arrived back in the united states yesterday and was greeted by a letter from the speaker of the house. john boehner writing, i and many other members of the house of representatives are troubled that u.s. military resources were committed to war without clearly defining for the american people, the congress, and our troops what the mission
immediately. others have defected to the opposition. a new website reportedly authorized by iran s government is calling for suicide attacks in bay irani after saudi troops supported bahrain s government, cracking down on protesters there. the eu is defending bahrain s actions. and here with me now to sort through all of this, intelligence expert, former congresswoman, jane harman, who is now the president of the wilson center, a nonpartisan think tank here in washington. well, where to start? first of all, syria. never seen pictures like this coming of out of syria. there s been an emergency order since 1963. could siry become unraveled as well? well, i think if i were bashar bashar asaad, i d be quite worried. his father held power for many yea years, what ruthlessly was able to take very grave actions