http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-loses-oil-revenue-as-it-loses-territory-in-iraq-2016-7
It is being treated like a pandemic. To treat a pandemic you slow the spread of the virus to create time for a vaccine
to be produced. The ISIS virus is being slowed by cutting off funding and supply lines. If the President was calling
this Radical Islam, appearing in public and spitting out vitriol, he would be feeding the virus by being a recruitment and
fundraiser for them. Instead he is keeping quiet and letting the military and allies do their jobs, reducing ISIS territory,
funding and numbers. Mosul is the last big city in Iraq that ISIS controls. The efforts to free this city have just begun.
When finished ISIS will be largely out of Iraq.
The popular saying "feed someone a fish and they eat for the day, teach them how to fish and they feed themselves for a lifetime" applies here.
Obama has taken that approach in Iraq, by forcing Iraq to develop its military in order to take back their country themselves and defend it
in the future. If the US military did it for them, we can never leave. I realize many would like it to go faster, but patience solves the problem better
long term.