The Islamic State’s capture Friday of the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi provides fresh evidence of the Iraqi army’s weakness, the terrorist movement’s resilience and the shortcomings of the Obama administration’s strategy for defeating the extremists, experts said. As a result, President Barack Obama could come under pressure to step up U.S. military intervention in Iraq and Syria unless Iraqi security forces swiftly retake Ramadi and prevent the fall of other cities in what appears to be a major Islamic State drive to overrun Anbar, Iraq’s largest province and the heartland of its Sunni Muslim minority. “If this offensive . . . isn’t stopped quickly, it certainly raises major, major...
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