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Senator John McCain has returned to Arizona to battle brain cancer, but has not given up his battle with the Trump administration. The latest front in his war on Trump is Afghanistan.
Specifically, the senator is demanding a “strategy for success.”
“More than six months after President Trump’s inauguration, there still is no strategy for success in Afghanistan. Eight years of a ‘don’t lose’ strategy has cost us lives and treasure in Afghanistan,” said McCain in a statement released Monday. “Our troops deserve better. When the Senate takes up the National Defense Authorization Act in September, I will offer an amendment based on the advice of some our best military leaders that will provide a strategy for success in achieving America’s national interests in Afghanistan.”
McCain’s lust for war and hate for Trump appears to be the basis of his demand for a strategy. In February 2017, Sen. Rand Paul stated in a Fox News report that “everything” McCain “says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he’s got running with President Trump, and it should be taken with a grain of salt, because John McCain’s the guy who’s advocated for war everywhere.”
Paul claimed that if McCain were “in charge” the country would “be in perpetual war.”
Paul frustrated McCain who has earned a reputation as a war monger when successfully blocked the passage of the pork-laden National Defense Authorization Act by offering amendments addressing indefinite detention and war authorization against ISIS.
McCain wants to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan.