Fox News strategic analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters roasted President Obama's refusal to identify radical Islam as America's enemy Monday, saying he "doesn't seem to learn anything ever."
Stuart Varney teased the interview by saying Peters, a fierce critic of Obama's foreign policy, had called the Orlando terrorist attack "Obama's American tragedy."
"His failure to do the essential things that had to be done led us directly to this tragic massacre of Americans in Orlando," Peters said. "Obama—I'm fascinated by him because he's a rare human being who doesn't seem to learn anything, ever. His beliefs formed when he was a teenager, hard-left beliefs, seem absolutely iron-clad and dogmatic, and he's immune to evidence."
Peters remarked his own politics were much further left when he was a teenager, but he said he managed to evolve.
"Here's a president, who, after almost eight years in office, still can't say the words Islamist terror or radical Islam, and it matters, and here's why it matters," Peters said. "How can you declare war on an enemy you won't even name? And we need a declaration of war against radical jihadi groups. That enables us to do many things."
Peters said law enforcement cannot go after "radical mosques" and there need to be laws that criminalize accessing jihadi websites. President Obama stated Monday that the Orlando terrorist appeared to be radicalized by online extremist propaganda.
One Fox host remarked Peters would likely see his blood pressure rise after Secretary of State John Kerry said the worst thing to do was point fingers at "one religion or another" in the wake of the massacre.
"I guess we should worry about bloodthirsty Unitarians, right? And how about rampaging Catholics? And Jews going into kindergartens and crying, 'This one's for Yahweh?'" Peters said sarcastically. "It doesn't happen like that ... Not all Muslims are terrorists, but virtually all terrorists are Muslims today."
He added Muslims had to sort out the "convulsive crisis" within their religion.
"In the meantime, we must defend ourselves, and that means taking on radical jihadi groups," he said. "When you have a president who won't even name them, you have the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time."