Why does McCain keep blaming America for terrorist violence?

[DonViejo]

Just days after the massacre in Orlando, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) insisted that President Obama was “directly responsible” for the deadliest mass-shooting in national history. The senator later walked that back, but only a little – clarifying that America’s foreign policy, not America’s president, should be blamed for the murders.

Late last week, as the Huffington Post reported, McCain did it again, telling a Pakistan television station that deteriorating conditions in Afghanistan should also be blamed on the United States.

McCain, apparently interviewed in his office this week ahead of a July 4 trip to Pakistan, was asked by interviewer Moeed Pirzada whether the current president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, is too technocratic and isolated to deal with the resurgent Taliban and other threats in his country.

“Do you think Taliban are the only issue or is something else needed in Afghanistan?” Pirzada asked.

“I believe that I have to be very frank,” McCain said, explaining that he believed Ghani, who took office in 2014, was a vast improvement on his predecessor, Hamid Karzai. “I don’t blame Ashraf Ghani. I blame the United States of America for not consolidating the gains that we made,” McCain said. “And this president has this idea for the last eight years that if we pull out of conflicts, those conflicts end.”

Yes, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee told a foreign news outlet – in Pakistan, where opinions of the United States are in need of improvement – that blaming Americans for violence in Afghanistan is the right and responsible thing to do.

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[Gabi Hayes]

1. traitor

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=mccain+traitor

[brush]

2. He's just a sorry ass trying to tact even more rightward as his time in the Senate . . .

is about to end as AZ turns blue on Clinton's coattails.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. He has nothing else to campaign on.

His constituents are not impressed with his tenure in the Senate and he's clutching at straws to remain competitive in the election.

[Downtown Hound]

4. Says the Iraq War cheerleader

The single biggest foreign policy blunder in the history of the nation, and the reason more than any other why ISIS now exists.