“The analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant,” Obama said.”
http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/08/white-house-isis-jv/
Sending Jihadi radicals to American run training camps in Jordan, training them with American special forces and CIA advisers, providing them advanced weapons, ammo, organizational and financial support helps makes them pretty effective killers.
Equipping them with plundered Libyan military weapons and hardware, makes them even more effective killers
Allowing then to run wild in Iraq with impunity , seizing American weapons given to Iraqi Army and hundreds of millions of dollars in cash turns them into a pretty effective Army.
Obama making them into a pretty effective army has allowed then to seize enough territory from Syria and Iraq to make themselves their own little country they call the Caliphate of the Levant.
To use the kind of analogy that Obama sometimes uses and understands, having your own country is like having very own basket ball league, lets call them the Jihadi NBA where Obama gave them the basket ball court, the basket, the basket balls, the coaches and of course the all important uniforms.
Obama gave Al Qaeda a league of their own and when you have a league of your own YOU get to decide the rules, including deciding yourself who is jay eve, varsity or pro.
FWIW, ISIL may not be able sink 1 free shot in 10 on the B-Ball court, but they sure seem to make the Al Qaeda Jihadi Maniac's All Star Team for Conquest, Plunder, Torture , War Crimes, Beheading and Crucifixion.
Based on recent progress, they make a hell of a traveling team and despite the ignominy of being very low seeded in Obama’s rating system, they are doing great in their brackets and so far remain undefeated.
It's hard to tell if ISIL is the real deal or not and just how far ISIL can make it to the final four because up until now , Obama has seeded Team ISIL so they have had to face virtually virtually no serious opposition in the game they are playing
When it comes B-Ball ISIL may not be able to hit the rimshot from the free throw line, but sure they do mean full court press, flooding the zone with severed heads of innocent women and children mounted on sticks.
Ordinarily, such bad bracket work would be a big problem but there is one place where Obama has the NBA beat hands down and that's with his cheerleading team in the media.
Any one who has watched the NBA cheerleaders has to admit that is quite an achievement.
That’s priceless- reminds me of Wesley Clark’s op ed just before 9/11 of how terrorism was overrated.