Let us never forget September 11, 2001. 

That is the day when a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al Qaeda, was unleashed on the United States of America. 

The “9/11 Attack” killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.  In addition, several people have died of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the seventeen years following this cowardly attack. (Wikipedia.com)

 And let us not forget:  Seventeen years later, we still have military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq, fighting a war against radical Islamists – a war in which 4,486-plus U.S. soldiers died in Iraq and 2,345+ U.S. soldiers died in Afghanistan, and more than one million U.S. soldiers have been wounded and will carry those battle-scars for the rest of their lives. 

And yet, the war continues on, and has now expanded into other regions of the Middle-East, and there seems to be no immediate end in sight.

Is the United States safer today than we were on September 11, 2001? 

As a nation, are we more united today than we were on September 12, 2001?  Unless you’ve been living in a “virtual reality” for the past seventeen years, any reasonable person would have to answer, No!  We are not safer today, nor are we more united today than we were back then.

Note:  Virtual reality is defined by Merriam-Webster as: “an artificial environment which is experienced through sensory stimuli (such as sights and sounds) provided by a computer.”

Why are we less safe today?  It is because we are fighting and squabbling amongst ourselves.  We are almost totally oblivious to the world-changing events that are rapidly taking place all around the globe each day, and most specifically in the Middle-East. 

 We’ve tuned out the “real” news and no longer take the time to listen, because we are being overloaded/overwhelmed by “fabricated” news reports of the latest social crisis.  The people of this nation are unwittingly allowing themselves to be divided by people with evil intentions . . . and that cannot be allowed to continue.

 We, the people of this nation, had better wake up, get right with God, and rally behind our government leaders and American citizens who have taken a sworn oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; and bear true faith and allegiance to the same.”

Jesus warned us long ago: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand” (Matthew 12:25).

Let us not forget.