On one hand we can't stop ISIS, on the other we can stop Iran from making a Nuke.

[Averageman]

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cia-director-isis-this-is-going-to-be-a-long-fight/
CIA Director John Brennan said Sunday that the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) will be "a long fight" that requires both a military and political solution.

"I don't see this being resolved anytime soon," Brennan said in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Brennan disputed the idea that the U.S. intelligence community has been surprised by ISIS' strength, saying he reviewed the intelligence last week and that, "we saw a growing strength."

"There are a lot of factors that come to play in terms of what gains they're able to make on the ground and as has been discussed, sometimes there are different Iraqi units that either don't have the leadership, the logistic support that they need in order to counter ISIS. And therefore it's looked at as a lack of a will to fight. But I must say that there has been a fair amount of intelligence about the growing capabilities of ISIS as well as the challenges that beset the Iraqi government, the sectarian tensions that continue to fuel a lot of these problems," he said.
But on the other hand
On the ongoing talks to limit Iran's nuclear program, Brennan said he is "confident" that the U.S. will be able to use its intelligence expertise to watch Iran's behavior and monitor whether or not they are abiding by their end of the agreement, in addition to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency.
For someone who's probably a smart guy, he doesn't seem to "Get It"
But he loves him some of that listening in on all of Americas phones and inter net.

[RCI1911]

I don't have much confidence in anything the government has their hand in anymore.

[interfan]

Accomplishing both takes A. Leadership and B. Political Will. The current admin (and Congress for the most part as well) has neither, nor do they have any understanding of the need to have either. Any lead up to election time is a carnival ride of on the blame game with no one doing anything that resembles the best interest of our country unless that can be accomplished in a 30 second soundbite. Within the year, these things are likely to get much worse. If you notice the questions posed to potential presidential candidates about "the invasion of Iraq" to weakly test the waters of public opinion. If the polls favor action, that is when it will happen as long as timing coincides with the maximum political benefit that can be gained from it. There is no leadership to say "here is the problem, here is why it is important to our interests to solve it, and here is the solution". Simple Leadership 101, but most seem to have been skipping class and hanging out with the Choom Gang when that was taught.

The only thing that would get POTUS to look at ISIS or Iran with some seriousness is if they found a way to weaponize "climate change" to kill all the grass on golf courses and the people would get interested only if Hollywood made a reality show about the process.

[Mr.Anderson]

If there be no problems, there be no reactions, thereby needing no solutions.