“The most significant thing about Secretary Carter’s comments, though, are the extent to which they have demonstrated that notwithstanding months and months in which the Administration and the Pentagon have asserted that the combination of American air strikes and Iraqi military action was degrading ISIS’s position, the fact is that ISIS is apparently as strong as resilient as it ever was.”
Via U.S. Defense Secretary Says Iraqis Have Lost The Will To Fight ISIS @ Outside the Beltway.