ISIS crisis? Obama blames Jesus.

• Position: Religion - Barack Obama

Based on his comments at a National Prayer Breakfast, Pres. Barack Obama appears to harbor sympathy for the U.S.'s enemies. While Obama professes a loathing for terror, he appears to believe ISIS terrorists are not entirely unlike us. He perceives that the Christian world unjustly condescends when it condemns ISIS terrorists because, in his view, the Christian world also is guilty of acts of terror.

The President clumsily put it this way: "Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that, during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ." He pointed out further that "slavery and Jim Crow all too often [were] justified in the name of Christ." He apparently concludes that terror "is not unique to one group or one religion." Rather, he appears to be suggesting that we all are potential terrorists, regardless of our faiths, stating: 'There is a tendency in us, a simple tendency that can pervert and distort our faith."

In his tortured logic, Pres. Obama conveys the outrageous position that ISIS terrorists are like us. For him, we all are ISIS, possessed of a tendency to pervert and distort faith to condone the genocide of innocents. The perspective offends when it comes from anyone in public office, but when it comes from the president, the commander in chief, and during a time of war when the nation is marshalling support for the obliteration of ISIS terrorists who seek to obliterate us, the comments are outrageous. They undermine the war effort. They show a lack of resolve to do whatever is necessary to destroy our dedicated enemies.

Imagine the effect of these words on ISIS terrorists. Already predisposed to view America as weak, ISIS terrorists now see that the civilian leader of the U.S. military sympathizes with them, even thinks they are like us.

The American people are not racist killers. Americans...