men to say, we are sending you in to fight isis only and by the way, we will decide on the policy whether to defend you if you are barrel bombed? they know we will provide support to them. will we tell them that we will defend them against the barrel bombing? i think we have an obligation to help them. have we told them that? we have not told them that. so you re recruiting people and you haven t told them you re going to defend them because you haven t made the decision yet. live at the pentagon they have been very harsh calling the current strategy delusional. are you surprised about these tough talks, especially what we re hearing from mccain? not at all. republicans on capitol hill particularly the chairman of arms senator mccain have been aggressively critical of the president s strategy. as you mentioned, mccain called the president s strategy