By sticking stubbornly to a failing strategy, Obama is, in fact, losing the war against ISIS and against Islamist terrorism more broadly. That is something the public intuitively understands — more than 60 percent of respondents in a poll disapprove of the president’s handling of ISIS and 53 percent support sending ground troops. Happy talk is not going to convince the public that the war is going well. Only results on the ground will alter perceptions at home, and those results have been — to put it mildly — inadequate. Note the latest news that the Iraqi offensive against Ramadi is stalled. No one is even talking anymore about an offensive against Mosul. Those are the grim realities Obama elided on Sunday night.
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