If ISIS decides it wants a nuclear bomb, it can probably secure one sooner than Iran.
In fact, the way things are going for ISIS, it will probably be able to conquer Iran and take over all of its nuclear facilities in a matter of months.
But why would ISIS want a nuclear bomb? What fun would that be? The type of maniacs who join ISIS join in order to cut off people’s heads, rape innocent women, and drive car bombs into buildings — not to push a button that would destroy a city. You can’t murder and rape ashes.
Instead of obsessing about himself and what might happen to his reputation twenty years from now, Obama should be obsessing about what he can do to stop ISIS now. But that would be completely contrary to his nature.
Being in the “nuclear” club is what makes a country truly sovereign.
Clinton put that on display with the Balkans war. Nato violated its own charter to get involved. It showed all the actors at the Nation State level, that if you did not have nuclear weapons, treaties did not mean squat.
Obama just demonstrated it again with Ukraine. We “guaranteed” their borders when they gave up their nuclear weapons, and everyone sees how that worked out.
Isis certainly wants nukes, because that pretty much guarantees that they will not be messed with.
Islam, by its nature, does not believe in treaties anyway (except as a way to rest and rearm), so the above probably is something they would understand as part of their doctrine.