As Barry-the-bumbler is learning in Iraq and Syria, probably to his chagrin, unless you buy the dubious notion that he wants the Islamists to win. Result: the fighter-bombers bomb and the ISIS infantry takes a Kurdish town and threatens Baghdad.
You can come pretty close to winning, however, as the Israelis did recently against Hamas, if you have enough troops on the ground to pick your targets for you.
Even the Iraqis want American ground troops back now, having stupidly pushed them out just five months ago. We could let them stew, of course, longer than Barry boy will do until the election’s over. But we’ll go back eventually.
That was a given, even back in June. It just happened faster than envisioned.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
I don’t believe that he wants the Islamists to win – he is simply a bumbler. His insistence on managing the military and not listening to intelligence briefings, viewing the world through the distorted lens of his politics – enough reasons to lose any war, even more vital that these.
Well, don’t forget his anti-Semitic State Department, et al. Heard any official public conern about innocents dying under our bombings in Syria and Iraq? They’re bound to be, just as they were bound to be in Gaza but only Israel got the heat. The snooze media is silent, too, but when the Dems are in control, that’s a given.