Top General Torches Obama's Syria-ISIS Strategy

The Pentagon's strategy for training Syrian fighters to defeat ISIS on the ground is a "total failure."

That's the conclusion reached by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee. The top general in charge of defeating ISIS testified before the committee earlier this week.

He admitted that the program, which was was supposed to put more than 5,000 trained fighters on the battleground by year's end, is falling far short of its goal.

One committee member asked Army Gen. Lloyd Austin to state the number of total fighters on the ground.

"It's a small number and the ones that are in the fight, we're talking four or five," he said.

Austin's admission unleashed a round of criticism against the Pentagon and the Obama administration for presenting a false picture of success in the war on ISIS.

"I must say, I've been a member of this committee for 30 years and I've never heard testimony like this. Never," Sen. John McCain said.