President Barack Obama is defending his strategy against the group calling itself Islamic State amid criticism American inaction helped lead to Friday's Paris attacks. NY1's Josh Robin filed the following report.

ANTALYA, TURKEY - After huddling with foreign leaders in Turkey, President Barack Obama emerged to defend a largely stay-the-course plan.

"The strategy that we are putting forward is strategy that ultimately is going to work," Obama siad.

It's a strategy devoted to no ground troops, apart from a few dozen advisers.

From the air, the U.S. is bombing, aiding French warplanes.

Obama admits limited progress in the diplomatic breakthrough he says is required. He stands by rosy assessments.

Just a day before the Paris attacks, Obama called the Islamic State "contained."

On Monday, Obama seemed irritated by suggestions he's been ineffective.

"What I do not do is to take actions either because it is going to work politically or it is somehow in the abstract make America look tough," the president siad.

In France, President Francois Hollande addressed a joint session of Parliament, dispatching with much of Obama's nuance.

"France is at war," Hollande siad.

A war sparking a multi-nation police dragnet and a debate over whether four million Syrian refugees should be given sanctuary in Europe.

The U.S. is poised to take in far fewer refugees, about 10,000, but European investigators say at least one of Friday's attackers entered Europe with Syrian refugees, and that's prompting at least a dozen U.S. governors to declare their states off limits.

"The most important responsibility I have as governor is to keep the people of Texas safe," said Governor Greg Abbott of Texas.

On the campaign trail, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz suggested relocating Muslims to other Muslim countries.

Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush says help for refugees should be limited by religion.

"We should focus our efforts as it relates to refugees on the Christians that are being slaughtered," Bush said.

That prompted Obama to recall George W. Bush, Jeb Bush's brother, who, six days after the 2001 attacks, visited a mosque.