members of the moderate so-called moderate syrian opposition which are the key to the president's strategy. it's been three months as you mentioned since the president stated the pentagon would vet, train, and equip moderate syrian forces on the ground during that prime time address from the white house on september 10th. there are serious problems becoming apparent with the strategy in syria. u.s. air strikes may be damaging the moderate rebels more than they are halting isis. a new study published by james defense suggest the u.s. led air strikes have allowed isis and assad to consolidate power. in fact, they have stopped targeting each other. isis is focused on eliminating the very moderate opposition groups the u.s. hopes to eventually train and equip. out of more than 900 operations that james defense looked at. assad has targeted isis only 6% of the time since the u.s. started those air strikes. syria, meanwhile is letting u.s. warplanes deal with isis while it too moderate