Marco Rubio said what America's political class has spent years tiptoeing around, and he said it plainly on national television.

Speaking with Sean Hannity on Fox News, the Secretary of State delivered a blunt warning about the threat radical Islam poses to the United States and the broader West. "All radical Islamic movements in the world identify the West writ large but the United States in particular as the greatest evil on the Earth," Rubio said. "And every chance they have, the notion that somehow radical Islam would be comfortable with simply controlling some province in Iraq or Syria is just not borne out by history."

Rubio was unambiguous about the ideology's ambitions. "Radical Islam has shown that their desire is not simply to occupy one part of the world and be happy with their own little caliphate, they want to expand," he said. "It's revolutionary in its nature. It seeks to expand and control more territories and more people. That's a clear and imminent threat to the world and to the broader West, but especially the United States who they identify as the chief source of evil on the planet."

He also addressed the homeland threat directly. "They hate Israel. But they also hate America, and they hate anywhere in the world that we have influence. They seek to attack it, including here in the homeland. If you look at the attacks that have happened here domestically, the overwhelming majority of them have been inspired by radical Islamic viewpoints." Rubio pointed specifically to the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando and the Saudi pilot attack in Pensacola as attacks Americans have conveniently forgotten.

Conservative commentator Evelio Silvera framed Rubio's remarks in stark terms. "Radical Islam is not a regional nuisance. It is a revolutionary ideology that openly identifies the United States and the broader West as the primary enemy and seeks expansion, domination, and submission wherever it gains ground." He added, "A nation that refuses to name a threat cannot defeat it."

Both men are right. The ideology is not hiding its intentions. It publishes them. It preaches them. It acts on them. From organized terror attacks to state-sponsored assassinations, the goal has never changed.

America has a Secretary of State who is willing to say so. That is a start. Now Washington needs to act like it means it.