John McCain’s “blame Obama for everything” tour continues. A couple of weeks ago, Obama was “directly responsible” for the Orlando massacre, according to McCain. Now it’s problems in Afghanistan:
“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.”
Yeah, why couldn’t Obama fix Afghanistan after five years of George W. Bush’s war there, to say nothing of the legacy of the Soviets and the troubled years between the Soviet Army leaving and the American one moving in? That guy Obama, I’ll tell you. Can’t even solve a simple problem like Afghanistan.
Oh, but there’s more to blame him for (if you’re John McCain). There was a recent terrorist attack in Turkey. Can we pin that on Obama? Of course we can!
“Let me give you an example of what just happened. In Istanbul, the rise of terrorism and a base for terrorism in a place called Raka [Syria, where the Islamic State is based], and that is now, that ISIS group is now establishing a beachhead. Guess where? Afghanistan,” McCain said. “We see abject failure of American policy and no strategy. I don’t blame Pakistan for that. I don’t blame Ashraf Ghani for that. I blame this president of the United States, who is a failed leader.”
If John McCain was a little more relevant these days, there’d surely be a Saturday Night Live sketch showing him blaming Obama for sins ranging from McCain stubbing his toe to the drought in California. But he’s not running for president anymore. He’s running to keep his Senate seat, and his Democratic challenger, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, had this to say:
“Arizonans should be shocked and appalled that McCain would go to the foreign press and ‘blame the United States of America’ for Taliban gains in Afghanistan. These reckless, insulting comments have become commonplace for John McCain because he’s changed after 33 years in Washington,” said Ann Kirkpatrick. “McCain is all out of ‘straight talk’ because he cares more about trying to shift blame and saving his political career than focusing our efforts on keeping Americans safe.”
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