John McCain: American leadership is 'missing in action'

American leadership under President Obama is missing in action, Sen. John McCain said, adding that the “feckless foreign policy” of the last five years has emboldened Russian President Vladimir Putin in an array of aggressive, Cold War-era actions.

“The President of the United States believes that the Cold War is over. That’s fine, it is over — but Putin doesn’t believe it’s over!” McCain, R-Ariz., said Monday at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. He was discussing Russia‘s invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s arming of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, which McCain said is destabilizing the Middle East and endangering Israel.