America is not at war with ISIS but not because wars are messy things. Nonetheless, they do have very well defined rules known formally as the Law of War, as ratified in a number of international treaties to which the United States is a signatory party.
One of the more significant mandates during wartime is the humane incarceration of captured enemy combatants - they are legally held (w/o. any criminal charges) in a prisoner of war camp for the full duration of the conflict. In order to criminally prosecute a captured soldier of ISIS, the United States would undertake to obtain a war crime's conviction in a military tribunal for which, and only for which, that ISIS terrorist would be subject to punishment by a specified term of penal incarceration (e.g. life in prison) or a death sentence for particularly egregious crimes against humanity.
Accordingly, President Obama will never go to war with any terrorist entity - to do so would require our sending all captured terrorist combatants to GITMO for indefinite interrogation by intelligence officers in order to ascertain the future combat attack plans against the Homeland by our enemy/adversary.
Instead, the current Administration is determined to have every terrorist taken into custody given a criminal trial in a civilian court after having "lawyered up" and shut up, so as to preclude any unfettered interrogation that will provide crucial knowledge of the futher planned attacks on our nation.
So yes, like elections, words have consequences. Indeed, words can hurt people, innocent people, who would be better protected were our Commander in Chief decide to follow the Law of War and treat captured ISIS combatants humanely at our World Class Prisoner of War Camp - GITMO - where they can talk until the Cows Come Home, thereby giving us the crucial information required to degrade, dismantle and destroy ISIS, so as to better manage their problematic plan to soon behead each and every one of us.
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