The most important responsibility of any government is to ensure the safety of its citizens in their homes and on the street.  In this, the Obama Administration has failed miserably.  In the aftermath of the Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino, fears were heightened.  People looked to the President for reassurance, admittedly a futile act, but where else did they have to look?  On Sunday night, the President made a speech about terrorism.  Surprising no one, it did not help.  While grudgingly admitting that the San Bernardino shooters were terrorists, he had to point out that there was no evidence that they were directed by a foreign terrorist organization.  Really?  Obama claimed that we will destroy “ISIL.”  Get that, the man who refuses to say “Islamic terrorists” can’t even call ISIS what it calls itself.  Obama then warned Americans that “our success won’t depend on tough talk or abandoning our values, or giving in to fear.  That’s what groups like ISIL are hoping for.”  That remark was aimed at Republicans who are advocating military action, and like most Obama blathering it was both weak and nonsensical.  Mr. President, taking decisive action isn’t giving in to fear, the object is to instill fear in the terrorists.  That’s what ISIL is hoping for?  Ted Cruz said ISIS should be “carpet bombed into oblivion.  I don’t know if sand glows in the dark, but we’re going to find out.”  You really think the ISIS thugs are hoping for that?  So what is Obama doing?  He claims the U.S. is leading a coalition of 65 nations united to combat ISIL.  Can you name five of those nations?  Obama didn’t.  He vowed to continue airstrikes against ISIL.  We have been conducting airstrikes since September 2014.  In those 15 months, ISIS has only gotten stronger and expanded its territory.  Obama assured us that he is asking Turkey to close its border with Syria.  This one would be laughable if it wasn’t so tragic.  Obama wants Turkey to close its border and stop Syrians from entering Turkey, but he refuses to secure U.S. borders, and he wants to admit 100,000 Syrians as refugees.  That is too sick to take seriously.  And, of course, the Obama remedy for terrorism is more gun control laws.  The guns used in San Bernardino were purchased legally, even under California’s restrictive gun laws.  But pass another law, we’ll all feel much better, if not safer.  Perhaps most infuriating of all was Obama’s oft-stated warning that we are not at war with Islam.  Obama’s putative replacement as Whiner-in-Chief, Hillary Clinton, gave the same warning.  We’ve heard this time and time again.  Mr. President, we understand that we are not at war with Islam.  We’re not fighting against any religion, we are defending civilization against barbarians who, this time, happen to be Muslims.  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an arm of the HAMAS terrorist organization which is run by the Muslim Brotherhood, chimed right in warning that there better not be a “backlash against Muslims.”  We hear the same warning every time some Islamic terrorists murder a bunch of innocent people.  Here’s a good question.  Has there ever been a backlash?  If one innocent Muslim turned up dead under circumstances suggesting retribution for a terrorist act, I think we would have heard about it.  We haven’t, because it never happened.  And anyway, what right does a terrorist apologist group have to dictate to Americans how we should react to an attack on our homeland?  We’re supposed to rely on our President to take the appropriate action.  This President won’t, and his putative successor will be no better.  Simply put, Obama fails to lead, either because he chooses not to lead, or because he doesn’t know how to lead.  I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.  He doesn’t have a clue.  That’s what you get when you elect a President who never held a job and never ran anything other than his own mouth.