This is correct up to a point - no candidate has declared a strategy that has any possibility of defeating ISIS. They’re all talking about “bombing”, as if that has ever worked.
And, I’ll go further. If you are not winning, you are losing. The West does not believe in the possibility of its ultimate defeat, which is the Islamic State’s strongest weapon.
Defeating ISIS, once we get around to the job, IF we get around to the job, won’t be all that difficult. After all, we are talking about Arabs, not Japanese or Germans. But we show no depth of understanding and no signs of marshaling the necessary forces.
Our military leaders are still obsessed with procuring shiny new toys that fly through the air or sail on the seas, while a brutal enemy increases their regiments and dominates more territory.
Our political leaders are blind, or compromised, or afraid.
We can lose. We are losing.
Once it takes off, it's going to be women, children, the old, the weak---those university cry babies? Toast.