And our resting on those "laurels" is what has allowed them to beat the crap out of the Nation/People/Constitution.
If you're too polite to fight fire with fire you don't belong in the war. (That's a generalization and not aimed at you).
God does not want us to use Satan’s weapons. What put us over the edge towards victory in the last two world wars was prayer and fasting, and I do wonder how many people expected FDR to call for that or if he had to be talked into it.