Obama's "Smart diplomacy"-----ISIS Could Win. Here's What that Means

ISIS Could Win. Here's What that Means | RealClearWorld
The feeling is growing in the international commentariat that the Islamic State may win: 
That the group will continue to gain territory in Syria and Iraq and will consolidate a permanent government, a state ensconced in the Islamic caliphate its leadership has proclaimed.
I ended a recent article on a note of bravado, writing that in spite of its successes on the battlefield and elsewhere, it remains all but certain that Islamic State will ultimately be ground up and destroyed.
Today I am less certain, and I have started to imagine what would happen if ISIS actually prevails.
I am reconsidering for a simple reason: U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's contention that the Iraqi government's military forces show "no will to fight." 
In a June 1 editorial titled "Who's willing to fight for Iraq?" the New York Times suggested that if Baghdad's military is unwilling or unable to defeat ISIS - if it is outgunned, out-organized, out-strategized and, one must add, terrorized by ISIS savagery - outsiders should stay out.
No boots on the ground, no escalation of air strikes; let us limit wasted resources.
What would result from an ISIS victory? 
First, an official Sunni Muslim state would be consolidated..."