I know John McCain is a doddering old fool at this point, but he is still an actual Senator. So this can't be ignored:

And asked [about] siding with Libyan rebels with unknown agendas:

"[I]t does take time -- it did during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan -- but we were able to provide them with some weapons and wherewithal to cause the Russians to leave Afghanistan. So we can do it."

He does know that those nice fellows we armed in Afghanistan turned out to be Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda, right?