Gizzi: WashPo Wrong On Inhofe’s Syria Stance
Inhofe to Newsmax: WaPost Got My Syria Stance Wrong
By John Gizzi
Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma has taken sharp exception to a column in The Washington Post suggesting he had changed his position over Syria because of a dislike of President Obama.
The column “got it wrong on my stand on Syria,” Inhofe said.
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee responded in no uncertain terms to a column by the Post’s Dana Milbank, who wrote that Inhofe, a leading opponent to a U.S. military strike in Syria, has sharply changed from the position he took only months ago.
Milbank wrote that Inhofe “is in a spirited debate — with himself” and, likened his opposition and that of other congressional Republicans on Syria to a “conversion on the road to Damascus.”
Such Republicans, concluded Milbank, “don’t like what Obama is doing in Syria — whatever it is.”