Though it is interesting how ISIS came to be and what they have done thus far, the real story here is that Obama is correct, they are failing, and failing with little need for us to do much of anything.
The Caliph is dead and soon ISIS will no longer by an army but become just another terrorist group like al qaeda hiding out in caves.
What we have here is 14 dead in about 4 years by these radical religious terrorists while there they suffer about 14 dead an hour, with two nations turned to rubble and 5 million souls running for their lives.
Perspective alludes us.
While Republicans call for bombing the poop out of them, carpet bombing the whole place, making the sand glow, killing their wives and children, purposely bombing civilians, closing the borders with religious tests, Muslim databases and the WW3. Really, they said all those things. Except Rand Paul.