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Donald Trump opened a new front against Iran after promising to end America's forever wars, repeating the pattern set by Barack Obama who launched strikes on Libya in 2011 and Syria in 2014 while pledging restraint. The Democratic Socialists of America now emerge as the faction ready to seize the baton, framing future interventions as humanitarian necessities against authoritarian regimes.
This succession reveals the managerial priesthood's grip on foreign policy, where every new cohort claims to restrain empire yet expands it through appeals to universal rights and global stability. The pattern traces from the neoconservative architects of the Bush years through the liberal humanitarians of the Obama era to the national populists, each group subordinating American blood and treasure to distant quarrels.
The governing principle violated here is the ancient Christian and Western conviction that a commonwealth owes first allegiance to its own people and their ordered liberty under law, not to abstract crusades for democracy or human rights. Scripture and the Augustinian tradition distinguish the City of God from the earthly city, warning rulers against the pride that drives nations into perpetual conflict for glory or gain.
Western Christendom learned this lesson after the religious wars of the seventeenth century, when the Peace of Westphalia established sovereign realms responsible for their internal order rather than universal causes. Modern factions abandon that settlement each time they justify foreign bombs as moral imperatives.
The DSA's entry into this lineage confirms that collectivist ideology offers no escape from the war machine, merely a different justification rooted in leveling envy and state expansion rather than corporate profit or neoconservative idealism. Property, household, and nation remain the proper boundaries of Christian stewardship, not the imposition of socialist order abroad.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject every faction that sustains these entanglements, whether populist, progressive, or humanitarian, and demand leaders who place border security, economic independence, and household prosperity above foreign adventurism. Only a return to national sovereignty, grounded in the creeds and the historic rights of peoples, can break the cycle.
Action begins with withholding support from candidates who continue the pattern and building institutions that prioritize the defense of kin and country over globalist schemes.
