Obama’s decision to deploy 250 military advisers to Syria is too little, too late, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain said in a scathing statement on Monday.

“The deployment of 250 additional U.S. military forces to Syria is a welcome development, but one that is long overdue and ultimately insufficient,” said McCain, R-Ariz. “Another reluctant step down the dangerous road of gradual escalation will not undo the damage in Syria to which this administration has borne passive witness.”