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 their villages had been blown up by isis after they left where isis still controls them. so they have no place to return to. thousands are still on the mountain. fox news sent benjamin hall, journalist and author of the new