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US commanders stationed in the Middle East now choose which Iranian projectiles to engage and which to permit through depleted defenses, preserving dwindling Patriot missile stocks at the cost of American lives on the ground.
Lawmakers note that bases such as Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Azraq, Jordan, have become exposed targets while the supply of interceptors continues to fall.
This rationing arises directly from sustained American deployments across the region that treat distant outposts as permanent fixtures of policy rather than temporary expedients.
The pattern recalls the late Roman legions stretched thin along the eastern frontiers, where each new commitment beyond the natural borders exhausted the manpower and materiel required for the defense of the heartland itself.
Scripture records that a nation that scatters its strength abroad invites the rod of correction at home, for the Lord does not bless those who forsake the defense of their own households to meddle in the quarrels of strangers.
The governing principle remains clear: a commonwealth owes its first duty to the preservation of its own people and territory, not to the indefinite projection of power that drains arsenals and blood in service of interests foreign to its own.
Continued entanglement in these conflicts therefore violates both the natural order of nations and the accumulated wisdom handed down from the founding generation that warned against permanent foreign alliances.
The faithful remnant must therefore demand the immediate recall of forces from the region, the restoration of stockpiles for continental defense, and the refusal of any further expenditure of American treasure on wars that serve no national interest.
Only through such deliberate withdrawal can the republic recover the strength required to guard its own borders and people against every threat, foreign or domestic.
