Sen. John McCain has blamed President Obama for turning his back on increased instability and al Qaeda-led violence in Iraq and has called for U.S. intervention there, but stopped short of calling for American troops to become involved.

“First of all no combat troops obviously…but we could provide [the Iraqi government] with assistance, we could provide them with logistic support, we could provide them with Apache helicopters,” the Arizona Republican told CNN‘s “State of the Union” Sunday.