What does he need to say? He's dropping tons of bombs on them. What mean name can he call them that will show how strong America is? Tough talk is just for the rubes, it's red meat for the people who need to puff up. I don't think the entire GOP is trying to declare war on Islam but look at what they actually say- how many of the current crop of hopefuls backs a registry of all Muslims in America? Here's a test for you- if you think a given policy would be fine for Christians then it's fine to suggest for Muslims. Would you tolerate laws the required you to register your religion with the govt? Are you fine with the govt banning Catholic or Methodist churches?
And how do you feel when people like Dear are held up as 'radical Christian terrorists'? Perhaps exasperated? What does throwing the word Christian in there accomplish? Does it make "real" Christians more determined to root out their own radicals? Does it make you want to root out your racist Christians like Dylan Roof? I'm guessing the answer is no. It probably just makes you feel singled out for blame for stuff that has nothing to do with you. Bear in mind that Islam has no equivalent title to, say, the Pope in the Catholic church. There are Imams but no single supreme leader as in many other religions (eg Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama of Tibet or the Pope or even really the top bishops). There are regional religious leaders but they have not sway over the entire body of Islam save whatever charisma they have.
Say what you will about climate but understand it's a religious belief, not a scientific one. If you gathered every legitimate climate scientist in the world together at once, all the ones who don't think anthropogenic climate change exists would fit in my master bathroom. Seriously, the consensus on climate is actually stronger than the evidence that smoking causes cancer. The CIA knows it, the Pentagon is planning the next decades of the military based on it and even the oil companies know it and are investing accordingly. It's a bit beyond the scope of a gun forum but I would suggest one follows the money. In almost every case you can figure out a lot by figuring out who profits from something. The shadowy "global warming industry"? That's laughable. The biggest oil companies generate millions of dollars of revenue every few minutes! The entire alternate energy industry is a zit on their back. It's like worrying about a noise in the closet while Freddy and Jason are both standing in front of you. At any rate, there's absolutely no possibility that the climate isn't changing- you only need eyes and ears to see it. All the data shows it, interviews with the Innuit show it, photos of mountains around the world from different years shows it, etc. You could be the holdout that doesn't think humans are causing it but regardless of the cause we have to deal with it. There are islanders looking to move their countries because they're barely poking out of the seas. Even if we can't fix it we have to deal with consequences. You can deny reality but not the consequences of denying reality.
I apologize for the aside, you're probably right- it's beyond the scope of DC.
I'm not sure if Obama has the support of the American people on terror. I guess it depends on who you ask. There are serious calls for the impeachment of Hilary Clinton and we're not even close to the primaries yet. I'm only 46 years old but in my lifetime I've never seen the kind of polarization we have now. Years ago I knew some people who'd been congressional pages. Back in the 70's Dems and Repubs would argue in session but play golf together. Supposedly this changed around the 80's to the point where most of the different parties actively hated each other and mostly wouldn't socialize. Many folks hated Bush but mostly it was his policies; two disastrous wars, failure to act on intelligence that lead to the 9/11 attacks and being at the helm when the big banks drove the economy off a cliff in '08, etc. But the hatred of Obama is very different, more personal. He was loathed by the right before anyone even knew him. Speaking only for my own experience a lot of it is racial, and I'm sad to say I personally have family members that won't accept the legitimacy of black president. I'm sure not all the animus is racial but in SD and MN I've seen a lot of it.
But outside of the hardcore partisans I'd say he's got reasonable support. His poll numbers ebb and flow like poll numbers will. I'm not sure that minute by minute polls is the best way to run foreign policy. Broadly I think he's doing about as well as one could. The American people would revolt if we committed our troops to another invasion and occupation IMO. ISIS was created by American bombs so I'm not sure more bombs can destroy it. The people of Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and even Iran will have to do a lot of the heavy lifting. It's their world to begin with.