Is America Returning to a Pre-9/11 Mentality?

For better or worse, we have new Washington leadership and a new direction for America.

It's a softer and relational Washington, with whom international bonds are more important than national borders and boundaries. It's a more secular Washington, which says that the country is no longer a "Christian nation.

" It's a more liberal Washington; it has enacted more left-leaning legislation in its first year than any previous administration. It's a more generous Washington, from whom handouts, bailouts and borrowing are granted and given at record-breaking political speed.

But my greatest concern, I must confess, is that it's a kinder and gentler Washington, to whom the global war on terror has turned into an "overseas contingency operation." That kinder and gentler Washington begs the question, "Are we returning to a pre-9/11 mentality?"

Look around you. The mood of many now days is almost scary. Everyone is looking for a hand out or bailouts. The government is slowly taken over many parts of our country and trying to take over our daily lives.

Like many of you, I pray every day that nothing like 9/11 ever will happen again. But only if we are prepared and our country seeks God in genuine prayer will we prevail and possibly prevent another such tragedy.

Mostly, for the sake of those who still bear the grief of that disastrous day eight years ago, I hope the present Democratic majority in Washington doesn't drop its guard on the global war on terror.

The world is looking at us and thinking we have weaken our defenses with this new party in control. I think they are right.

We must come together as a country under God and back to what made this nation so great.