“The State Department downplayed comments from Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) leaders that they are at war with America, arguing that their violence is not directed at any particular country or race.”
The group says they are at war with you - Islamists have been saying it for decades - and in spite of their own declarations against you, you - Holder - chose to deny they are at war with us.
The pretense - all over the west - that we are not at war with global violent Islamic jihad, ONLY provides means and solace to their apologists - which are legion in the west and actively subverting the west, and hurts the cause of anyone fighting them.
The next POTUS needs first accept that ISIL is a nation state and then simply declare war on the country. Then use the Geneva Convention and hang spies and saboteurs or give them the Dostler treatment.