Today, America failed. The US government let Islamic terrorists kidnap, torture, and execute a US citizen with impunity. They used the desperate parents of an American hostage as a prop in their vaudeville show designed to placate concerned Americans and win brownie points and votes, while doing nothing to actually free 23-year-old American, Hersh Goldberg-Polin. When did the US become so spineless? When did we start negotiating with terrorists? How have we lost our moral clarity? Since when is it ok to sit back as one of our own is tortured and murdered by terrorists? Who will be next? Will you, your child, your sibling be the next American left to suffer for months, in the hands of barbaric monsters only to be murdered in a dark tunnel as the US government cries crocodile tears from afar, doing nothing but profiting over your suffering? Will the president and vice president threaten an army trying to save you, telling them not to go into the region where you are being held because it fears losing votes from terrorist sympathizers? The next victim could be any American, not just a Jew. Islamic terrorists don't just operate in Israel. They are globalizing the intifada throughout Europe, Canada, and America, and the US government is letting them do it, saying "they have a point". Protecting Americans from terrorists should not be political, it should be a given. Unfortunately, the slaughter of Hersh Goldberg-Polin is just the canary in the coalmine, and I shudder to think what will come next. We are not safe.