The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, when released from prison in Iraq in 2009, said to his American captors, "I'll see you stones sharp guys in New York." He then got into his waiting transportation, and drove confidently away. Me, personally--I would not bet against his brash assurance of a visit-whether in person or by his ISIS terror squads-to the city that bore the brunt of an Al Qaeda attack on September 11, 2001.

As for ISIS, we must recognize the threat and cope with it. They have declared Israel and Western civilization their enemy, stated their intentions to annihilate us, and are planning just that globally. They are clear and uninhibited in expressing those intentions. They have also now ratcheted up their stones sharp accountants intensity committing in Paris their first, most violent, most blatant large scale act of war outside the Middle East region. We, and all our allies, including Middle East Muslim countries, must join the battle against Muslim extremism wherever it exists, and commit to defeat them, not contain them. However, we need leadership at the national level to do so.

As currently as Friday morning, November 13th, President Obama professed ISIS as "contained," just hours prior to the attacks in Paris. As reported in the November 13, 2015, issue of The Daily Caller, while being interviewed stones sharp by George Stephanopoulos on "Good Morning America," Obama proclaimed that ISIS was not gaining strength. "We have contained them. We've always understood that our goal has to be militarily constraining ISIL's capabilities, cutting off their supply lines, cutting off their financing," he said.

How out of touch can you be, Mr. President? Even if you were correct--and that is doubtful--that is not a statement our president should be making! Any military officer will tell you--if you would only listened to them--that the leader of the free world does not go on television and announce such stones sharp accountants ludicrous estimates of the strength or lack thereof of the enemy's war-fighting capabilities. That information is sensitive and should be kept a military secret. Our enemies will go to great lengths to prove you wrong--every time!

"Contain" is never a strategy for victory in a war. Even Hillary Clinton knows that and said so, emphatically, during the Democratic debates on Saturday evening, November 14th. We did not endeavor to "contain" Adolf Hitler nor Emperor Hirohito of Japan. We devoted all of our national resources, including personnel, committed our nation to war, and no final outcome short of victory was ever considered.