To believe that Obama ISIL strategy is working, you have to believe....

NY Post Editorial:

The week that was brought fresh evidence that President Obama has no actual strategy to defeat ISIS — just talking points, platitudes and gestures.

ISIS takes Ramadi in Iraq and Palmyra in Syria — each a city of great strategic, economic and symbolic value. The US response: Send Iraq 1,000 anti-tank missiles, downplay the victories and have the president intone, “I don’t think we’re losing.”

Reality check: In the nine months since Obama announced his anti-ISIS coalition, ISIS territory has grown 20 percent. Most of the coalition’s 50 “members” have done nothing in the fight.

Even US forces have done far less than they might, flying far fewer bombing sorties than they could — and almost never bombing ISIS’s capital or command facilities in Raqqa, Syria.

As for training allied boots on the ground: Washington didn’t even start doing so in Syria until the other week, “coincidentally” just days after a Los Angeles Times story exposed the failure.

It’s hard as yet to measure the impact of training in Iraq. To date, the key anti-ISIS forces there seem to be Iran-aligned Shiite militia. Obama himself admits to making far too little progress in bringing Sunni tribal forces into the fight.

On top of expanding its Syria-Iraq territory, ISIS has welcomed new affiliates across the Middle East.

But the White House shows no sign of caring. Back in February, ISIS put out a video of its execution of 20 Egyptians in Libya; Egypt responded by bombing ISIS’s Libyan forces — and Washington complained.
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To think it is working you would have to believe he intended for there to be more deaths and head chopping, slavery,  and growth in affiliates.  The military has been almost as bad with its predictions of ISIL failure in the face of ISIL conquests.