
“‘Is this possible global conflagration interrupting your video poker time?’ Stewart mockingly asked McCain, pointing out that the senator has been pushing for the U.S. to attack Syria for a year, only to devote the moment to picking up an imaginary winning hand. Stewart also pointed out that the U.S. has tried seemingly everything with regards to the Middle East: dialogue (every 8 years or so), sanctions, explicit and not-so-explicit rewarding of coups. ‘It’s like, even though we’re a superpower, we haven’t figured out that we don’t actually have superpowers,’ Stewart said. ‘But we just keep jumping out of the building, thinking we’re gonna fly.'”
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