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Senator John McCain: "Killing, bombing, destruction, Daesh in Libya...my kind of day!"
Senator John McCain: "Killing, bombing, destruction, Daesh in Libya...my kind of day!"
"They are going to have to fight in Libya, they know that... they're already there," McCain said on Wednesday of US Special Operations forces. US forces will most likely be deployed to Libya "in the same incrementalism that [the Obama administration] has been practising, which in the long-run doesn't work."
In a testimony on Wednesday, a nominee to head the US Special Operations Command, General Raymond Thomas, noted that the Islamic State in Libya poses the "greatest risk" to US coalition partners and European countries as a result of its strong organization and resource base along Libya's Mediterranean coast.
The Obama administration has come under increasing pressure to send additional special forces to Libya, following recent gains made by the Islamic State, also known as Daesh, in Northern Africa.
Comment: Thanks to John McCain and other Western
hawksvultures, Libya is a devastated country rapidly becoming the new stronghold for Daesh and other militant groups. As a war junkie, McCain is spouting the same war chants he did in 2011 before Gaddafi was murdered, but, you know, it's a new day, a new war, and he can hardly wait.