The weak approach by President Obama in calling out Islamic terrorism has rendered him incapable of clearly defining America's enemy or offering effective strategies to defeat them. But there are others who can do so and sound infinitely more presidential in the process.

Take for example Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse, who actually traveled to the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, now known as the site of America's first terrorist attack since 9/11. Standing before the multitude of candles that now fills the grounds in memorial outside the building, Sasse gave a rebuttal to the president's earlier speech given on the same night.

For Sasse, defining the enemy is easy: militant Islam, not "some empty sociological label called extremism." It's not even just ISIS, says Sasse. And it's certainly not a result of "global warming or guns shows," nor "income inequality."

Our enemy is that which hates freedom:

I'm in San Bernardino, California, standing outside the site were 35 of our neighbors bled this week, 14 of them died in this massacre. This neighborhood should not be a part of a war zone, this neighborhood should not be a battleground. So why is it? Because we're an open society, we're a free society, and our enemies hate freedom and we owe it to those who died this week to tell the truth about the nature of this conflict. We owe it to these 14. We owe it to their families. We owe it to the service men and women in uniform, who are abroad right now fighting for our freedom, some of whom will come home in caskets and frankly, we owe it to the families of those who are still yet to die in the future.

All adults know that the jihadi attacks we face on our homeland are not over. These will not be the last people to bleed and die because we are a free society. And so we should tell the truth about the enemy we face, we should tell the truth about them, but we should also be honest about who we are and we should reaffirm our core values.

We are not at war with terrorism, which is just a tactic. We are not at war with some empty sociological label called extremism. We are not even just at war with ISIS — though we're obviously at war with ISIS — but there will be other enemies that will lift the black flag of death in the future even after ISIS has been routed in Syria and Iraq. This is not about workplace violence. This is not about global warming or gun shows. This is not about income inequality. This is not about kids from broken homes, as tragic as that is. This is not about anything that we have done wrong. This is about who we are. This is about the nature of freedom.

So who are we? We're people who unite around the Constitution, we're people who come together around a First Amendment and we together, three hundred and twenty million of us, believe in the freedom of religion, in the freedom of speech, and the freedom of assembly, and the freedom of the press.

Oh, the day that is a transcript of an American president.