 The action had no practical effect but showed that McCain's being criticized at the state level as insufficiently conservative was still ongoing.McCain remained stridently opposed to many aspects of Obama's foreign policy, and in June 2014, following the major gains by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant in the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, he decried what he saw as a U.S. failure to protect its past gains in Iraq and called on the president's entire national security team to resign.McCain said, "Could all this have been avoided?