John McCain actually said...

So, if we have not contained ISIL, how are we to know--believe that we are succeeding against ISIL?

This is an abject failure. The refugees are the result of it.

if there's not engaged American leadership, serious leadership, that people believe that we're in there and committed to the strategy, we're...

I predict that, unless we do something different, it will remain, as General Dempsey said, stalemated, which means tragedy.