National Security Adviser Susan Rice said the Obama administration is not reassessing it's strategy to defeat the Islamic State (ISIL or ISIS) even as airstrikes prove ineffective in stopping the advance and spread of the terrorist organization in Iraq and Syria.
When Meet the Press host Chuch Todd asked Rice if the strategy was being reassessed, the former UN ambassador responded in the negative and emphasized that the U.S. is not and will not consider sending ground troops to Syria.
"No, Chuck. This is very early days of the strategy," Rice said. "We are not going to be in a ground war in Iraq. It's not what's required by the circumstances we face."
Rice repeated the proposed trajectory of the U.S. strategy, saying "we will do what we can from the air."
Human rights groups and the UN alike have expressed concern that IS militants are advancing and threatening more populations despite coalition airstrikes.
"Even if one were to take that step, which the president has made clear we are not going to do, it wouldn't be sustainable," Rice said. "We've got to do this in a sustainable way."