Obama is successfully paving the way for the next worldwide Islamic Caliphate. Americans think they are in a war against islamic fundamentalists and moslems think they are in a war against the atheist infidel west.
He is assuring ISIL that he will take a while to study the situation and options before ANY action would be taken.
What is clear is that it is this administration's publically unacknowledged policy to foster the creation of a Sunni Islamist state in the ME. Barry tried and failed in Egypt when the generals overthrew the Muslim Brotherhood. Libya is too chaotic to function as a real state. He's hoping to succeed here.