Islamic State -- aka ISIS, ISIL -- Is Winning Its War as President Obama Stumbles (POLITICS)
As the Obama administration gropes for answers to the challenge of the Islamic State, it appears that their new stratagem is to place their hopes in Shiite-dominated Iran, a theocracy that hates America as much as the Islamic State, and which itself is despised by the Sunni Muslim community  al-Baghdadi and his caliphate represent.