i don't want to sound crude or nasty, but i think the USA has been extremely sheltered for the last 50 years (at least on an internal basis).
okay so there have been some terrorist attacks, and they did have high casualty figures, but it needs to be seen in perspective. Radical Islam hates the USA and often with what is seen by many to be valid reasons, usually sticking their nose in to the internal affairs of other nations where it is not directly required or even wanted.
Speaking from first hand experience, I live in a country, and grew up in years where bombs and bomb attacks where an everyday occurrence. Life in the UK was more 'exciting' than living in Israel. It was not uncommon for there to be assassinations, attempts, grenades, mortars, incendiary and the all to disgusting nail bombs. And these happened every day. The evening news programmes were generally a blood bath of people who had been killed, maimed or injured, and as I recall, much of the IRA's finances came via fundraising events held in.... you've guessed it.... the USA. This is a matter of fact, and any UK government reports will confirm this issue. Of course the American supporters would justify their position seeing the British being in Northern Ireland as an 'occupation'. But I have heard these very words uttered about the US from countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Philipines, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and a whole host of other nation states.
If the guy giving the prophetic word is correct and the USA will be attacked, instead of trying to pray it out of existence (which is extremely unlikely as America is by and large a nation in rebellion against God - no offence meant, but the truth), then it should be embraced and used to lead the nation into national repentance. Only through repentance will God's hand be moved aside, and the attack on America can only happen with God's say so.... after all He is in charge (christianity is not a dualistic religion). I am not saying the UK is much better, in fact in some respects our country is worse. I personally think our country is under God's judgement for actions at the Balfour treaty when we shafted what later became the nation of Israel.
Steve
Patriotism is a virtue of the violent - Oscar Wilde
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about. - Mark Twain
A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot -- except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart. The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite -- the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter- forgive these injuries how many times? -- seventy times seven -- another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity. Well -- Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult. Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him -- he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him. The prayers concealed in what I have been saying is, not that patriotism should cease and not that the talk about universal brotherhood should cease, but that the incongruous firm be dissolved and each limb of it be required to transact business by itself, for the future. -Mark Twain
