McCain: Putin Has Stepped ‘Into the Wreckage’ of This Admin’s Middle East Policy

‘Have no doubt, it was Bashar Assad that gave birth to ISIL’

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"Have no doubt, it was Bashar Assad that gave birth to ISIL. The president has said for years -- for years -- that Assad must go. But he has done nothing that has brought us any closer to achieving that outcome. My friends, it's not that we have done nothing. But what it is, we have not done anything that would reverse the trend and in any way further the goal that the president articulated a year ago that we would destroy -- degrade and destroy ISIL. In short, this administration has confused our friends, encouraged our enemies, mistaken in excess of caution, for prudence and replaced the risks of action with the perils of inaction. Into the wreckage, into the wreckage of this administration's Middle East policy has now stepped Vladimir Putin."

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