Facts you should know as you watch/listen to this Meet the Press clip: First, we fly just under 13 airstikes per day (4,500 total divided by 365 days -- compared to 800 sorties per day during the Iraq invasion) and only 25% of these sortie's actually are effective. Secondly, the "handful" of trained Syrian forces is 60, and, as the video states, a number of them have been kidnapped. Third, we have failed to train Iraqi forces, and, have allowed Iran to circumvent our role in that regard. A final point is this: that long war the reporter talks about, need not be the case. Most generals believe that we could defeat ISIS in a matter of months, in Iraq, if we had the will to do so.
You should also know that the Pentagon is not targeting ISIS training camps (60 in all) that produce 1000 soldiers a month.
