"I don't think they're gaining strength. What is true is that from the start, our goal has been first to contain, and we have contained them."
That's the word from Barack Obama just a few weeks ago. Then, Isis launched attacks in Paris and Obama's people tried to walk his comments back, suggesting that the President was making a small, targeted, and very specific point about geography. That didn't really fly either, but it was the last we heard from the administration about "containment."