AMEN! "The response to Foley’s beheading should have been a MOAB [Mother Of All Bombs] dropped on an ISIS-held town." From the comments:

One of the problems with the "war on terror" is that "terror" is a tactic, not an enemy.

ISIS has declared itself to be the Islamic State. Now we have an entity against whom to wage war. It might be prudent to recognize the Islamic State and then, in the same breath, formally declare war on them. We will, of course, obey all of the laws of warfare including the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of POWs. (GWB was a fool not to have granted Al Qaeda POW status....) Of course, the Geneva Conventions require that combatants wear uniforms, and provides that combatants OUT of uniform may be summarily executed as spies or saboteurs. I'm not aware that any AQ fighters ever wore anything remotely resembling a uniform, so if we had recognized AQ as a Geneva Convention entity, we'd be absolutely within our rights to empty Gitmo with hangings. Which would have eliminated the declared "caliph", who would have danced the Danny Deever.

Having formally declared war against IS, we could seize their commerce and funds, and then declare them as being guilty of war crimes, and exercised other powers that cannot really be used against an amorphous "terrorist" enemy.

Of course, this all assumes a leader who might have some intestinal fortitude, which our current "leader" does not.

A recommendation for our next President....