John McCain actually said...

To Putin, weakness is provocative.

There is, at present in Iraq, an unprecedented opportunity to support Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

In my judgment, increased support for the Iraqi Security Forces, Sunni tribal forces, and Kurdish peshmerga is needed.

the lack of a strategy to say that we can--have to take out Syrian air defenses in order to establish a no-fly zone is simply not true.