Taking ground, especially with the big black footprint that IS produced on a regional map, isn’t as easy as showing up with a bunch of Toyota trucks and beheading a bunch of people.
Now they have to hold the ground and act like a government. They could have learned a whole bunch if they had taken notes from the muslim brohood’s clumsy takeover in Egypt.
Yup. They can call themselves a state, but it doesn’t make it so.