Obama's ISIL strategy finally revealed--Nothing

Daily Beast:

The self-proclaimed Islamic State has claimed a major provincial capital in Iraqand taken over another strategically key city in Syria. In response, the Obama administration plans to do—well, not much of anything new.

Four defense officials told The Daily Beast that there’s still strong resistance within the Obama administration to making any serious changes to the current strategy for fighting ISIS—despite mounting skepticism from some in the Pentagon about the current U.S. approach to the war.

Although the Obama administration’s public messaging is that it still wants to “degrade and ultimately defeat” ISIS, in reality, many in the Pentagon view the real objective as just running out the clock.

“I think this is driven by a sense that this not our fight and so we are just going to try to contain it and have influence where we can,” one official who works closely on the military strategy explained to The Daily Beast. “This is a long fight, and it will be up to the next administration to tackle.”

Rather than aiming for a decisive victory, the U.S. approach has devolved into simply maintaining a low boil in perpetuity.
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“It’s a political response,” one official explained. “They are doing ‘something’ to inoculate themselves from substantial criticism.”
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This policy is actually worse than that.  They are putting pilots at risk, but not allowing them to strike the enemy when they are on parade.  It is a strategy to do nothing beyond acting like they are doing something.