TRAGEDY – AT 8:15 A.M. ET:  ISIS is advancing even further.  This looks very bad.  From AFP:

In a new move consolidating its grip in Syria, IS seized on Thursday Al-Tanaf, the last regime-held crossing on the border with Iraq, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. With their gains in Palmyra earlier Thursday, the monitor said the jihadists now control half of Syria’s territory.

The monitor said IS control of Al-Tanaf, known as Al-Walid by Iraqis, means Syrian government forces have lost control over the porous border.

The Observatory said jihadists spread out Thursday through Palmyra, including at the archaeological site in the city’s southwest, and executed 17 people accused of “working with the regime.”

The Islamic State group seized Syria’s Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be “an enormous loss to humanity.”

US President Barack Obama played down the developments, saying he didn’t think the US was “losing” to IS.

COMMENT:  He doesn't, does he?  The field marshal must be getting his intelligence reports from Mickey Mouse.  If we're not losing, where, precisely, are we winning?  Public opinion polls are showing substantial public apprehension over our collapse in the Mideast.  But Obamans listen only to themselves and their thesis advisers.  Obama is either delusional, or his ego is now in complete control of everything he does.

May 22, 2015