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Into battle and so i can't afford to play some of the political games that others may. >> so there we have an emotional president obama maintaining that our current strategy against isis is the right one. his republican critics, however, do not agree with that. here's what a number of them had to say on our air today. >> we have a president that doesn't even use the term and won't use the term radical islamic terrorism. >> this is the war of our time. we cannot do this by leading from behind. >> they're not the jayvee team but they are certainly not ten feet tall. the worst possible solution i...

Options, and it is not just my view, but the view of my closest military and civilian advisors that that would be a mistake. >> joining me now is msnbc military analyst and retired four-star general barry mccaffrey and am bassador chris hill, former assistant secretary of state. general, the president said he's going to intensify the current strategy but continue the current strategy. he is not considering more ground forces. he's not considering anything beyond training and equipping the iraqis, standing up syrians which so far has failed, and air strikes. is that enough to defeat isis? >> i ...

Specific plan. >> reporter: but mr. obama brushed off calls to pour thousands of u.s. troops into iraq and syria saying that would only repeat past mistakes. the president was visibly annoyed that his strategy was even questioned. >> why can't we take out these -- >> well, jim, i just spend the last three questions answering that very question. we can retake territory. and as long as we leave our troops there, we can hold it. but that does not solve the underlying problem of eliminating the dynamics that are producing these kinds of violent extremist groups. >> reporter: the president also def...

He always down plays the threats. isis is a jayvee team. we don't need to get involved in the no-fly doan inzone in syria. here at the home lant the threats are going up and the congress is allowing our budgets to be cut. we'll have the smallest navy since 1915. the budgets are being cut so the congress has got blame here too. >> you want to be president of the united states? >> i will make that decision by may. if i run, the answer will be yes. if i do run it's because i think i would be the best person running at a time we need a commander in chief and knows what he's doing. >> what do you t...

Jayvee team. >> we will conduct a systematic campaign of air strikes against these terrorists. working with the iraqi government we will expand our efforts beyond protecting our own people and humanitarian missions so that we're hitting isil targets as iraqi forces go on offense. >> the plan was to degrade and destroy isis. but the effort would be limited to air strikes because the president fore swore the deployment of american ground troops. meanwhile the beleaguered yazidi people had been forced to flee to sinjar mountains about ten miles away from the overrun village of kocho. many of thei...