Please. It is exactly this kind of stretching that makes these approaches to prophecy completely unreliable.
There is no “stretching” about it. Daschle and Edwards represented the American people, and at the highest levels. Daschle’s remarks were part of the U.S.’s official response to 9/11. Edwards was VP candidate at the time. At that point he represented Democratic America. It’s also not accidental that they were Democrats because at bottom their party is atheist and antichrist. They thought they could use God’s Word as they liked but God’s Word got the better of them. For the purposes of what Isaiah 9:10 says, they tied America to it, regardless of what one thinks of Cahn’s interpretation of it. “Professing to be wise, they became fools,” not even investigating the passage’s immediate context, which even someone with little to no Bible knowledge should be able to discern that this passage isn’t to be quoted as a rallying cry of encouragement.
And actually, I’ve never thought so extensively on what the people responsible for Daschle’s and Edward’s speeches were thinking (Daschle’s apparently concluded on it while it was the theme of Edward’s), but either the context was somehow entirely ignored, or the quote was cynically used anyway, based on the thinking that people would be ignorant of the context and since the Bible was being quoted - a political plus - the passage’s actual meaning would hardly matter. How wrong they were.
I believe that we are living in the days of prophecy fulfillment. I'm sorry if you think the Bible is just a storybook.