McCain on Obama Staying in Cuba: He Doesn't See Terror Threat Anyway

President Barack Obama should cut short his Cuba visit in light of the Brussels terror attacks, says Arizona Sen. John McCain, though he admits it probably would not do that much good anyway.

"The fact is that if he came back, very little would change, because it's very clear that the president does not view this threat with any seriousness, otherwise he would not have let it grow, metastasize," McCain said Tuesday on Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto." 

"This is not like an earthquake or tsunami. This is a result of the failed policy of this president who wanted to get out of all wars and either didn't realize or didn't care that wars don't stop when you get out," said McCain, who has long pushed for the United States to lead an effort to take out the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Inaction will only mean further attacks, said the GOP senator, "And some who are viewing this will not agree with this, but we have to go into Raqqah and we have to kill them."

McCain said Americans should lead the effort, but that the majority of ground troops should be from Sunni Arab nations.

"It is not that we're doing nothing," McCain said, "it is that nothing we are doing is really changing the status of ISIS [the Islamic State] and the threat they pose to the United States of America. And that's all because of this president's failed policies."

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