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The United States military has begun evacuating its remaining positions near Erbil airport while Iranian missiles and drones hammer American installations across the region. Patriot systems once tasked with shielding those outposts have already been dismantled and removed, their radar signatures too inviting a target for the advancing adversary.
This evacuation does not arise from prudent calculation but from the exhaustion of a managerial elite that once promised to reorder the Middle East according to its own abstractions. The same priesthood that scattered American blood and treasure across distant deserts now directs a silent retreat, abandoning allies and equipment alike.
Christendom once understood that ordered nations defend their own hearths before projecting power abroad. The principle finds its root in the distinction between the City of God and the earthly city, a distinction Augustine drew as Rome itself faced the shock of barbarian incursion and imperial overreach.
Today the American nation is invited to repeat that ancient error in reverse: to expend its strength in endless projection while its own borders dissolve and its households fracture under the weight of debt and demographic change. The Iranian regime, whatever its own tyrannies, acts as a coherent actor defending its sphere; Washington acts as an empire without a people.
National sovereignty requires that force serve the concrete good of the historic American nation rather than abstract commitments to global management. When that hierarchy is inverted, withdrawal becomes inevitable and the cost falls upon the remnant who must rebuild afterward.
The faithful therefore turn their attention homeward. They demand the redirection of every remaining resource toward securing the southern border, restoring household economies, and recovering the moral architecture that once made a people capable of self-rule.
Those who persist in foreign crusades while the domestic order crumbles will answer for the inheritance they have squandered. The remnant must now act to preserve what remains before the next wave of dispossession arrives at their own gates.
