Behold our "leaders", our soi-disant ruling class, and consider how poorly they have served the country they intend to "transform". One such transformation was very openly and vocally named as reducing the United States' influence in the world. Which they have certainly managed, albeit not quite in the way they were fantasizing.
To answer the headline, the 0bama administration is not making any war on ISIS. It is doing as little as it can to maximize the optics with a minimum of political risk to itself. It has no intention and certainly no strategy for winning because that would mean it would be given responsibility for the outcome. Such plans as the administration had, have, one by one, proven ineffective, misinformed, counterproductive, and disastrous in outcome. Any working class American with this track record of failure would be looking for another line of work.
It may be a good thing for our allies (those of whom survive it) to learn that the United States under Democratic leadership is not to be trusted and that they are not only on their own but may be actively opposed by the meddling of its fools. That's tough love on steroids, and it is at the cost of the honor of our country, which the current administration feels worthy only of the derision it has openly expressed.
Yeah, I’m still up in the air on the whole treason versus incompetence thing, which is sort of the defining mystery of this administration. I think John Kerry can be pretty safely written of as incompetent. But Obama to me is a whole ‘nother level of angry and ideological and deceptive.