President Barack Obama recently invited Arizona Senator John McCain to the White House to discuss the use of a military intervention into the conflict in Syria in the two-and-a-half yearlong rebellion against President Bashar Assad's government.

President Obama recently announced he would seek congressional approval of a strike against the Assad government. McCain has come out strongly in favor of using U.S. military might to punish the Assad regime for using nerve gas against civilians in a suburb of Damascus, killing over fourteen hundred people, including hundreds of children. Many Democrat and Republican lawmakers have already taken sides on the issue of action. The debate would bring about the biggest foreign policy vote since the approval of the Iraq war under former President George W. Bush.

Sources say the two-and-a-year long civil war has already claimed over 100,000 lives. Assad recently denied his government was responsible for a U.S. confirmed chemical attack on Damascus on August 21^st and blamed the rebel forces.

Senior administration officials recently briefed lawmakers in private meetings to explain why the U.S. should strike Syria. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will meet soon, according to the chairman, New Jersey Democrat, Senator Bob Menendez. The Senate Armed Services Committee will also met on the issue led by Oklahoma Republican, Senator James Inhofe.

McCain said in a recent interview on the CBS program "Face the Nation" that the respond to Assad should be more that just a "pinprick" use of cruise missiles, but a clear-cut tactical plan with obtainable goals.