McCain: Obama’s ISIS plan a ‘Band-Aid’

President Obama’s decision to send 450 U.S. military advisers to help Iraqi forces fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is nothing more than a “Band-Aid,” Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in a radio interview Sunday.

Because U.S. forces have not been more engaged, McCain said, Iraqis have turned to Shia militia and Iranians to battle ISIS terrorists.

The “450 advisers, of which only 50 will be doing any training and advising, not going to have any effect whatsoever. It’s a Band-Aid,” McCain told John Catsimatidis in an interview on “The Cats Roundtable” on AM 970 in New York.

“It seems to me that the president is just waiting out the next year and a half,” added McCain, Obama’s 2008 presidential rival. “God only knows what’s going to happen in the next year and a half as the slaughter by ISIS continues.” 

“These are the people who beheaded Americans, my friend, and they are a threat to the United States.”

Given the beheadings by ISIS and aggression by Russia, national security and foreign policy will be some of the most critical issues of the 2016 contest, McCain predicted.

“That gives an advantage to those who have a significant background in national security,” said McCain, who has already endorsed his good friend Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) for president. “Lindsey Graham is my comrade and my friend, and knows more about it than all of those put together.”