Appearing on Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS, Secretary of State John Kerry said trying to figure out if America is at war with ISIS or not is "a waste of time." Kerry said he would instead rather focus on defeating them -- more specifically, using White House talking points, "degrade and defeat" them.

But the big question is, without a clear description of what America is indeed doing, how is America going to defeat ISIS? That was perplexing to host Bob Schieffer.

Schieffer sought clarification of Kerry's earlier comments during the week in which he would not call America's action against ISIS a "war," despite the fact that the Pentagon and the State Department are using "at war with ISIS." Kerry said trying to figure out if it is a war is pointless :

Well, Bob, I think there's frankly a kind of tortured debate going on about terminology. What I'm focused on, obviously, is getting done what we need to get done to ISIL. But if people need to find a place to land in terms of what we did in Iraq, originally -- this is not a war, this is not combat troops on the ground. It's not hundreds of thousands of people -- it's not that kind of mobilization. But in terms of al Qaeda, which we have used the word war with, yeah. We are at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates, and in the same context if you want to use it, yes. We're at war with ISIL in that sense. But I think it's a waste of time to focus on that, frankly, let's consider what we have to do to degrade and defeat ISIL. And that's what I'm, frankly, much more focused on.

Kerry's answer was about as clear as President Obama's strategy, frankly. Oh wait, Obama doesn't even have a strategy. Now it all makes sense.