“We don’t have a strategy yet to deal with ISIS.”   –B. Hussein Obama, 28 August, 2014.

“This threat cannot be solved simply by dealing with the perceived grievances over Western foreign policy,” he said. “Nor can it be dealt with by addressing poverty, dictatorship or instability in the region, as important as these things are. The root cause of this threat to our security is quite clear. It is a poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism that is condemned by all faiths and by all faith leaders.” –David Cameron, 29 August, 2014.

The main similarity between the two leaders’ speeches is the seeming lack of a comprehensive, even rudimentary plan on how to deal with this non-nation state terrorist entity. The biggest difference between the two leaders is that only Obama came right out and said so.

Cameron posited ideas on how to begin to thwart the enemy. Control travel to the areas known to be training and operational areas, and more strongly, stopping travel of those wishing to return. The Britons are more likely to be able to do this as well. The Obama administration has made it policy to have a porous southern border. We can’t stop an untrained 10-year old from entering, let alone a team of trained fighters equipped with trade craft skills of evasion.

I was struggling with which is worse—having no strategy or admitting it to the world. I’ve concluded it is the latter. It is akin to responding to a burglar in your home. It is one thing to have a gun with no bullets. It is quite another to tell the burglar you have no bullets.

B. Hussein’s inactivity is self-perpetuating and borders on the criminal. He has known about the increase in power and personnel of ISIS for a year. They’ve been a topic of his daily intelligence briefing. Unlike his predecessors, B. Hussein prefers to read the brief personally rather than attend an in-person live brief. Probably, in this manner, no one can really be sure he actually reads it but they definitely know when he is not in the room for a presentation. But he has known for a year that they were on the horizon. He never asked any follow up questions or pressed for deeper intelligence. After all, ISIS was a junior varsity team, right?

None of our political leaders will admit it. They just can’t bring themselves to say it. I have no reservations.

We are at war. The Muslims (the ones who are active and vocal) are at war with us. They want to kill us because of our religion and way of life. Their religion allows them to use our lifestyle and technology in order to fight us. But they prefer a simpler life of milking camels and roaming the desert sands. There is but one way to stop the slaughter of our civilians that fall into their hands. We have to rise up and kill them first.

We haven’t had a Crusade in over 550 years. That is exactly what is needed now. Start in the furthest lands from Mecca and Medina and begin the eradication. Aside from the death of terrorists, think of the relief to these countries’ economies when we relieve them of the welfare that most of the Muslims absorb. Start in northern, western Europe and work towards the Middle East. Another front on the westerns tips of Africa and work towards the Nile. Eventually they will be confined to their own sand box. We can either leave them be there, or just be done with it and keep going.

I say keep going.