>> the strategy will fail yet get. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. >> even former top officials in the obama administration had tough words. >> it's more than just an intelligence failure, it's a policy failure as well. >> of course the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most, american boots on the ground. >> united states now has 3,500 military advisers in iraq helping the iraqi government take on isis. but the biggest intelligence failure and policy failure and underestimation was not of the strength of the self-styled islamic state but of the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014, when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army