Egypt wakes up to ISIS

Leon himself has frankly admitted the immediate threat Libya faces from Islamic State:

In Libya, Islamic State has found fertile ground in the growing post revolution political instability, capitalizing also on the weakness of state institutions and state security sector...

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has also acknowledged Libya’s parlous situation.

"What we are seeing today in Libya is a double threat: it is a threat of a country that is breaking apart and of a country where Daesh (Islamic State) is taking power and infiltrating,"

President Obama’s urgently needs to rethink his September 2014 assessment that Islamic State:

1. Is not Islamic
2. Is not a state but only a terrorist organisation with no other vision

Professor Deborah Lipstadt has succinctly summed up President Obama’s continuing political blindness:

He has bent over backwards to try to separate [Islamic State] from Islam, Sometimes people try to keep an open mind. And when you have too open a mind, your brains can fall out.

Islamic State continues to morph as groups such as “Province of Sinai “ – creating mayhem and havoc in the Egyptian desert area neighbouring Israel and Gaza - swear allegiance to it

Islamic State will continue acquiring territory whilst military action remains unauthorised by a United Nations Security Council resolution.

America and Russia must both be brain dead in ignoring Islamic State’s increasing threat to their vital respective interests in the Middle East.