Michael Sodrel: “Sir Winston Churchill once said ``An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.'' We followed…”

“Sir Winston Churchill once said ``An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.'' We followed the process of appeasement with terrorists for too long. We ignored the jihadists for too long, and they finally arrived on our soil. Let me highlight a few examples of terrorist attacks for which we responded with appeasement. December 21, 1988, Pan American Airlines Flight 103 was blown up by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland killing all 259 passengers on board; February 26, 1993, an Islamic terrorist group attempted to blow up the World Trade Center using a bomb in an underground garage; August 7, 1998, bombs exploded simultaneously in front of U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killing 12 U. S. citizens and injuring thousands of innocent bystanders; On October 12, 2000, they attacked the USS Cole while docked in Aden, Yemen killing 17 sailors and injuring 70 others. After the loss of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 our military was finally ordered to take the fight to the terrorists. When a new recruit is inducted into the U.S. military he or she takes an oath. In part this oath pledges the soldier, sailor or airman to ``protect and defend the United States Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.'' If I had to distill the U.S. Constitution down to a single word I would define it as ``liberty.'' Young Americans fought and died at Trenton and Yorktown to achieve liberty.…”