9/11, Six Years Later

It's been six years since that fateful day, and my heart goes out to those that continue to mourn the loss of loved ones and friends lost in the tragedy of that day. As our nation gathers in various places in remembrance, I find myself taking inventory.
Why has the United States allowed itself to become so divided? If we were right in our response, why hasn't victory truly been declared? Why have we refused to admit we changed our culture in response to 9/11, which was supposedly the stated purpose of the enemy? How do we figure they didn't win, if our Western culture is no longer the same? That day that nearly 3,000 lives were lost, a new direction was founded. We have continued to lose loved ones in military service, our freedom, our hopes, our children's and grandchildren's securities, our trust in our government and our tolerance. I'm not talking about the "pseudo-tolerance" for every group that's making noise, I'm talking about acceptance of others and their differences. I've come to realize when a group of people are motivated by anger, their anger must be maintained to keep them moving. When people are motivated by fear, the fears must get larger and more intense for the people to continue to respond fearfully. And when people are motivated by sorrow or vengeance, every time they are reminded, the wound or determination is fresh again.
In the last six years, theories have been formulated, arguments documented, and debates continue over the actions of this country since the event of 9/11. But everything that is done, continues to divide, rather than unite, and serves to reduce the respect, we, the Western culture, the leader of the free world, once enjoyed and valued.
While our nation's leaders make reference to Osama bin Laden as being in hiding or nearly impotent in power, he continues to have the entire American administration looking under every rock and checking every citizen, or so they tell us that's why they are doing it.
As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death. a Proverb of Holy Scripture