John McCain actually said...

This emerging vacuum has been filled by the most extreme and anti-American of forces: Sunni terrorist groups, such as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant [ISIL] and al Qaeda; Shiite extremists, such as the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies; and the imperial ambitions of Putin.

Context

McCain discusses the rise of extremist forces in the Middle East.

03/07/2016

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