Monday, November 17, 2014

PJ Media McCain Questions Lack of ISIS Strategy

http://pjmedia.com/blog/chairman-mccain-to-demand-isis-strategy-end-defense-
sequestration/?singlepage=true


Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the incoming chairman of the Armed Services
Committee, said President Obama has to "lay out a strategy" the new Congress
can help implement to fight ISIS.

He said administration officials are going to be asked to testify about the
conflict.

 McCain called for a strategy that shapes the budget, rather than a budget
that shapes the strategy.

"We're going to have hearings. I say, with all respect, does anybody here
know what the strategy is? Now, the president has said the goal is to
degrade and defeat ISIS. Does anybody here know what the strategy is to
achieve that goal? So, we're going to have to have hearings," McCain said at
the National Press Club during a discussion about his book, 13 Soldiers: A
Personal History of Americans at War.

"We're going to call them and up and say, 'what are we going to do? How are
we going to do it? How much is going to cost? What do you need to do it? I
want to work with the president but the president is going to have to give
us the strategy that we can help him implement and it is the job of Congress
to authorize and appropriate, that's our constitutional responsibility,"
McCain added.

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