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The United States Central Command directed fresh airstrikes against Iranian military infrastructure while Tehran launched drones and missiles at regional American allies, extending a war already in its fifth month that has now taken the lives of nineteen-year-old Pvt. Isabella Gonzales and twenty-five-year-old Lt. Tyler James Feehan.
These young soldiers died not in defense of American borders or ports but in exchanges that also threaten shipping lanes through Hormuz and drive up the price of fuel for every household still loyal to place and kin.
President Trump vowed that each American death would be repaid many times over, yet the steady accumulation of wounded service members whose names remain suppressed points to a conflict whose scale and duration were never submitted to the people who must pay its price in sons and treasure.
Augustine taught in the City of God that the earthly city wages war for its own preservation and not for the glory of distant thrones; when a commonwealth departs from that limit it begins to serve the appetites of the powerful rather than the ordered liberty of its households.
The same principle guided the Peace of Westphalia when sovereign realms agreed to cease using foreign battlefields as arenas for universal ambition, recognizing that nations exist to guard their own people and not to police every shore.
Here the Managerial Priesthood of permanent institutions treats American power as an instrument for maintaining a global order that dissolves borders and dissolves the very households asked to supply the blood.
The Iranian regime, an enemy of Christian peoples and a persecutor of the ancient churches, must be met with force sufficient to deter its reach, yet that force must remain tethered to the survival and integrity of the American nation rather than to the maintenance of distant client states.
The faithful remnant therefore refuses to bless any campaign whose strategic horizon is measured only in body counts and fuel surcharges while the republic itself grows weaker and more divided.
They demand instead that the sword be sheathed when the defense of hearth and homeland no longer requires its use, and that the young men and women of Carrollton and Ewa Beach be kept for the defense of their own soil.
