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Our enemy today is radical Islamic terrorism, and it can and WILL be defeated.

Whether Fort Hood, San Bernardino, or a number of others in between, President Obama’s approach has been to treat each one in isolation.

What America needs is a firm resolve to always protect Americans’ freedom at home and moral clarity that starts with defining the enemy.

A safe America starts with a secure America. It is beyond time to secure our border.

There are some on the Right and Left who want to exploit our current crisis by calling on Americans to surrender constitutional liberties.

The Bill of Rights is entirely compatible with protecting the safety and security of the American people.

Rather than stripping ordinary citizens of their constitutional liberties, we should have a clear strategy to utterly defeat ISIS.

In addition to protecting Americans at home, the strategy to defeat the enemy starts by calling it by it’s name: "radical Islamic terrorism"