That strategy seems to be working.
Marines being disarmed in Yemen? A success story ONLY if the strategy is to allow Islam to dominate.
This is 1940 all over again. Like Hitler overrunning the borders of the neighboring countries, ISIS is quickly overrunning the location of their original assault on a semi-legitimate regime, into neighboring countries, and extending their reach into countries far distant from point of origin, while managing to disable or nullify potential opponents by guile or deceit.
Only after the United States was hit on a point of vulnerability, in such manner that was vastly provocative and intensely damaging, were the layers of self-imposed isolation pealed away, and the ire of the majority of American citizens sufficiently aroused, to overcome the years of blindness and complacency.
And we damned near LOST that war.
The new Freedom Tower in New York City will probably have to be knocked down before the real intent of ISIS is made apparent to the large majority of residents of that territory once known as “the United States of America”, so there shall there be a sufficiently large measure of anger to begin the business of ridding the world of this scourge.
So far as Islam ever “dominating” the world, if they cannot generate strife with the non-Muslim world, because it is either destroyed or subjugated, they will turn upon themselves, like a pack of rabid wolverines, and destroy “dissident” factions within their own ranks.
>> Marines being disarmed in Yemen?
And did the Administration care?