Those weren't (to my knowledge) ISIS operatives. They were, wanna be copy cat shootings. Obama is correct in not labeling ALL Muslims as bad people. When we start calling ALL Muslims a problem, that's the day the USA becomes like Nazi Germany and the day that we increase the ranks of ISIS membership. Only a tiny, tiny, tiny, number of Muslims world wide, belong to ISIS or other terrorist organizations. Most all Muslims are good people. We've had terror bombings by deranged Christians, but no body blames all of Christianity for it (and I'm glad they don't blame them). We rightly blame the twisted individual who did the killing. So far all we know of The Gay Pride Shooter (SC's term, not mine) is that he killed a lot of innocent people.
George W Bush is the man along with his master Dick Cheney that destabilized the entire middle east by toppling the one stable country that was a balance to extremist Islam...Iraq. The Arab spring, the rise of ISIS and Islamic jihadist is all linked back to the Bush administrations failed middle eastern war. I wish Gore had been President instead of Bush Jr.
And we have some common ground. Not ALL Muslims are bad people. I know, I have talked to them and seen them. But when we refuse to call Terrorism for what it is, Terrorism, out of some need to tow the PC line we have an issue.
Major Nadal Hassan expressed sympathy to the Islamic fascist cause. He was not reported to his superiors because they did not want to be called racist. The San Bernadino shooters were the same believes of the same political laced Islamic fascism as ISIS and the like. They are terrorists. Something that Obama refuses to admit. Burying your head in the sand to the truth does not make this country safer, it makes it weaker and puts us at greater risks. And this thing that people do of bringing in Christianity into the argument is flat out DUMB (not by you in particular, others I have heard in the media) because this is not a debate about RELIGION it is a POLITICAL IDEOLOGY that drapes itself in religion! But no, the powers that be have to "lean forward" and show how open minded and "progressive" they are by refusing to acknowledge evil acts by evil people because they just so happen to be of a certain group of people.
Are there people who think all Muslims are bad? Sure. They are dead wrong. But let's face it the Left has a huge issue of making the distinction between Terrorists and regular human beings who are not murderous ********, and just so happen to practice Islam. So much so that the Left will call anyone criticizing the Terrorists as racist. And it is ridiculous!
As for said Islamic fascists, they have existed for years before 9/11. They attacked the American Embassy in Kenya, they attacked a US Navel ship in Yemen, they took hostages and killed people in Munich during the Olympics, but no one gave a crap about them until 9/11. Hell Clinton had his shot to take out Bin Laden and he never did. Hell Reagan had his shot to help rebuild Afghanistan after funding the Mujahadeen and he failed there. Then the crazies took power and the Taliban took hold.
Was Bush perfect? Hell no. Was the Middle East a bastion of paradise of peace before the Iraq War? Not even close. But between Obama and W, I take W in a heart beat. For all his failings he knew who the enemy was and knew the proper response.