President Barack Obama was faced with questions Wednesday over whether the deadly attacks in Brussels have made him rethink his strategy to crush ISIS and if he has a "Plan B," NBC News reported.
Brushing aside critics who say he is too cautious, the president emphasized recent successes in the fight to dismantle the terror group, vowing that it would ultimately be destroyed, which he said is his most pressing issue.
Obama has defended himself against Republicans such as Donald Trump, who calls for an all-out ban on Muslims from entering the United States. He also took a swipe at Sen. Ted Cruz, who said he wants more aggressive monitoring of Muslim neighborhoods in America.
"As far as the notion of having surveillance of neighborhoods where Muslims are present, I just left a country that engages in that kind of neighborhood surveillance, which, by the way, the father of Sen. Cruz escaped for America, the land of the free," Obama said, referring to Cuba.
