O interviewed on 60 Minutes

He was good.

[T]his week, in my speech to the United Nations General Assembly, I made very clear we are not at war against Islam. 

Islam is a religion that preaches peace and the overwhelming majority of Muslims are peaceful. 

But in the Muslim world right now, there is a cancer that has grown for too long that suggests that it is acceptable to kill innocent people who worship a different God. 

. . . .

We have to get the international community to recognize this is a problem. 

We've got to get Arab and Muslim leaders to say very clearly, "These folks do not represent us. They do not represent Islam," and to speak out forcefully against them.

He leaned on vacuous, globalist cliches beloved of the classe politique.

Steve Kroft: 

I think everybody applauds the efforts that you've made and the size of the coalition that has been assembled. 

But most of them are contributing money or training or policing the borders, not getting particularly close contact. 

It looks like once again we are leading the operation. We are carrying...

President Obama: 

Steve, that's always the case. 

That's always the case. 

America leads. 

We are the indispensable nation. 

We have capacity no one else has. 

Our military is the best in the history of the world. 

And when trouble comes up anywhere in the world, they don't call Beijing. 

They don't call Moscow. 

They call us.

That's the deal.

Steve Kroft: 

I mean, it looks like we are doing 90 percent.

President Obama: 

Steve, when as issue ... when there's a typhoon in the Philippines, take a look at who's helping the Philippines deal with that situation. 

When there's an earthquake in Haiti, take a look at who's leading the charge and making sure Haiti can rebuild. 

That's how we roll. 

And that's what makes this America.

He was clueless.

Steve Kroft: 

But you've said that we are not going to be the Shiite air force. 

We're not going to be the Kurdistan air force. 

I'm not going to be the Iraqi air force. 

But in effect, with the allies, that's what we have become. 

We have become the Iraqi air force.

President Obama: 

With the allies, with their ground troops, and if we do our job right and the Iraqis fight, then over time our role can slow down and taper off. 

And their role, reasserts itself. 

But all that depends, Steve. 

And nobody's clearer than I am about this. 

That the Iraqis have to be willing to fight. 

And they have to be willing to fight in a nonsectarian way. 

Shiite, Sunni and Kurd alongside each other against this cancer in their midst.

Steve Kroft: 

What happens if the Iraqis don't fight or can't fight?

President Obama: 

Well...

Steve Kroft: 

What's the end game?

President Obama: 

I'm not going to speculate on failure at the moment. 

And he was scary.

Steve Kroft: 

Do you think there's any chance of a military confrontation between NATO and Russia and Ukraine?

President Obama: 

No, I don't think there's going to be a military confrontation between NATO and Russia, although we have worked very hard to reassure our NATO allies on the front lines, including some smaller Baltic states like Estonia, where I visited before the NATO Summit in Wales, that Article Five of the the NATO treaty means what it says. 

We come to the aid and assistance, so if you mess with the NATO country, then there will be a military confrontation. 

And Putin understands that.