It is dangerous to mix the level of education, which is quite high among these radical jihadii, with the extremist view of the end times. Frighteningly, in one form or another, all 1.1 billion Muslims in the world accept this end-times teaching in one form or another, and as ISIS grows and becomes more powerful, more and more of those 1.1 billion will buy into al-Baghdadi's theology.
Our enemy isn't any one Mideastern nation. It is extremist Islam, and that threatens to become all of Islam while our utter failure of a president sits twiddling his thumbs hoping to leave at least one legacy behind in a non-nuclear Iran. 1) That isn't going to happen, because they are going to be nuclear regardless, and 2) he's either too stupid and disengaged to recognize #1, or he actually is helping foment #1, and I'll leave the reader of this post to figure out why he would do that.