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Tue Mar 4, 2014, 04:06 PM Mar 2014

At AIPAC, Senator McCain Slams Obama’s Foreign Policy

U.S. Senator John McCain on Monday tore into the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama for its refusal to intervene in Syria last year and for fecklessness on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week. McCain also addressed in strong terms what he believes the U.S. must do to prevent Iran from achieving a nuclear weapon.

Speaking to a favorable crowd at the 2014 AIPAC Policy Conference, in Washington, D.C., McCain said, “What happens in Ukraine is directly related to what happens in the Middle East, and we obviously know what happens in the Middle East is vital to the existence of the State of Israel.”

McCain said Russia’s occupation of the Crimea, in the Ukraine, is “a blatant act on the part of [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and one that must be unacceptable to the world community; it can not stand.”

Rather than agree with the U.S. line so far on Ukraine, that there are few options for the U.S. to take, McCain said, “the most powerful and biggest and strongest nation in the world should have plenty of options.”

He suggested that the U.S. could take direct action against Putin’s regime by invoking the Magnitsky Act, formally, the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 (H.R. 4405), which could be used to block Russian officials seeking entrance to the U.S. and using U.S.-registered banks.

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http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/03/03/senator-mccain-slams-obamas-foreign-policy-at-aipac/

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