He knows that I don’t play politics … and I certainly don’t play it with national security and neither does anyone else I know. The lives of our young men and women are on the line. The strategy does not belong to any political party and I can assure you that the President of the United States is not playing to any political base. And I take exception to that remark.
— National Security Adviser Jim Jones, in an interview on CNN, responding to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) who said last week that the Obama administration doesn’t “want to alienate the left base of the Democrat [sic] Party.”
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