Only if Obama’s strategy is to allow ISIS to win.

Via The Hill:

The White House believes its strategy to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is “succeeding,” press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday.

“We’re in the early days of the execution of that strategy,” Earnest said. “But certainly the early evidence indicates that this strategy is succeeding.”

His remarks come as President Obama on Tuesday meets with top U.S. military officials and defense ministers from nearly two-dozen coalition partners amid new concerns that airstrikes have done little to contain the terror group.
There are new signs that ISIS is continuing to make gains in both Iraq and Syria. The group reportedly captured a military training camp in western Iraq and continued to bomb the outskirts of Baghdad, leading to renewed fears of sectarian violence there.

Meanwhile, in Syria, ISIS forces are inching closer to capturing Kobani, an ethnically Kurdish town near the border with Turkey despite an escalated air campaign outside the city.

Still, the White House maintained that despite those ISIS gains, the overall strategy was paying dividends.

The president’s meeting, the White House said, was to ensure that coalition military efforts are “integrated and effectuated in pursuit of this operation.”