Sounds to me like the Pentagon has taken a tough stand against isil and Obama is trying to hold them back from destroying them. Obama’s greatest fear is a legacy of killing islamists. All he can think about is his Islamic father.
Maybe Obama’s letter to the OKC mosque attended by the beheader - thanking them for their response to a tornado a year ago, of all things - was his way of letting the Muslim world know he’s still with them even though he’s got to do this taqiyya of appearing to be against them, since (if the allegations are true) the groups involved in the Benghazi weapons feed to the terrorists was in danger of being exposed from within if Obama didn’t cooperate with a ranking Senator (probably Barbara Boxer).
That would explain why he had that letter read in spite of the terrible “optics” of it...