Too often Americans become lulled into contentment, wrapped as we are in our wealth and indulgence.  If you look around, it is hard to believe that our brave sons, brothers, nephews, and neighbors are at this very moment in faraway lands defending liberty.  Today is a good day to remember that we are at war -- perhaps not "total war" in the historical industrial-economic sense -- but, war none-the-less.

Radical Islam is the enemy today, like fascism and imperialism before it.  But these are just different names for tyranny.

Tyranny is not just a political or socioeconomic condition of nation-states, but a condition of all men's unregenerate hearts.  A condition juxtaposed to God's desire for our heart and commandments:

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'  The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  There is no commandment greater than these."

So, today, remember those who sacrificed for the causes of liberty and pray for those who stand today to sacrifice for the same.  Remember too that, through Christ's strength, we have the power to defeat the tyranny of the heart and mind that would separate us from God, so that we might be a better witness to the peace that can only come from Him.