ISIS takes the measure of the Most Equal Comrade; he doesn't get ISIS at all

They've captured Iraq's largest dam.  They've taken over the largest Christian city in Iraq.  The've cornered 40,000 Yazidis on top of Sinjar Mountain without food or water.  They've stoned and beheaded people in every local they've conquered.

And now they proclaim in a video that their flag will fly at the White House:

“I say to America that the Islamic Caliphate has been established,” Abu Mosa, a spokesman for the terror group known as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), told VICE Media in a video interview posted online Thursday. “Don’t be cowards and attack us with drones. Instead send your soldiers, the ones we humiliated in Iraq.”

“We will humiliate them everywhere, God willing, and we will raise the flag of Allah in the White House,” he added.

So, okay, the Most Equal Comrade has authorized humanitarian airdrops to the stranded Yazidis and limited airstrikes in the area.  But do you feel secure that the guy knows what the hell he's doing?

as recently as last November, Obama dismissed ISIS and other al-Qaeda affiliates as nothing more than a jayvee squad. While interviewing Obama, The New Yorker's David Remnick noted that "the flag of al-Qaeda is now flying in Fallujah, in Iraq, and among various rebel factions in Syria," and that "al-Qaeda has asserted a presence in parts of Africa, too."

The president shot back: "If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant."

Now, that same junior varsity team controls more territory than any terrorist organization in history, has some 5,000 battle-hardened jihadists with Western passports, hundreds of millions of dollars at its disposal, and is earning millions more every day by selling oil on the black market. It is slaughtering Shiites, Christians and other "infidels" with a medieval abandon that makes the alleged A-team of al-Qaeda blanch with horror. 

His track record ain't so great.  He thought leading from behind in Libya would result in a stable and happy arrangement there, he thought drawing a meaningless red line in Syria would have no serious consequences, and we all know what he thinks of Israel.

We're getting the change part, but there's not a lot of hope.