Barack Obama’s “strategy” against ISIL isn’t exactly a success. It’s haphazard, halfhearted, ineffective and … slow. The Daily Beast reports, “Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected. Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day – the kind favored by many in the air service – American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process. The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called kill-chain of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow.” Part of that is because, with no boots on the ground, it’s very difficult to tell ISIL apart from the so-called moderate Syrian rebels, or to identify desirable targets. The other part is that Obama is exerting both too much and not enough control over the operation. He’s micromanaging without leading. More…