Intellectualizing the recent atrocities committed by ISIS, President Obama succeeded in distancing himself emotionally from the horror and tragedy of the situation. Albeit on the backs of Christians who seem able to take whatever hit he throws while  he is making sucking sounds in the Kings Palace in the Land of Perpetual Human Rights Violations, Saudi Arabia. This style of approach to life is insular only to the more immature minds. Sophomoric is a good way of putting it. Inellectualizing horror was responsible for the equal distribution of Zyklon B in Nazi Germany.