It has been six years and we are still los­ing the war. On this the first Tues­day 11 Sep­tem­ber since the last Tues­day 11 Sep­tem­ber, it is pro­foundly heart­break­ing that, instead of iden­ti­fy­ing and destroy­ing our enemy, our gov­ern­ment has instead shack­led our abil­ity to defend our­selves to the whim of col­lec­tivists, appeased and pan­dered to those who would destroy us, and vis­ciously under­cut the very prin­ci­ples for which we should be fight­ing. Can it really be that Amer­i­cans have for­got­ten what it did to us? If it hap­pened again, would we react the same way? Or has the post-​​terror cul­tural rot cor­roded America’s sense of self so thin that she no longer cares? Or worse? Our future is bright and shin­ing, just below the hori­zon. Whether it is ris­ing or set­ting is up to us.