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The United States has now conducted its tenth consecutive night of strikes against Iranian military targets, yet the IRGC continues to land blows on American outposts and allied infrastructure from Kuwait to Jordan. Nearly one hundred troops have been wounded in recent days, a fact the Pentagon first suppressed until external reporting forced a partial admission. Regional mediators float ten-day ceasefires while the Managerial Priesthood in Washington weighs how much more blood to expend in a theater that never served the defense of the American homeland.
This pattern repeats the ancient error of republics that send their sons across seas to police foreign powers rather than guard their own frontiers. The Patristic witness and the later Christian commonwealths taught that lawful war must serve the common good of the ordered nation, not the abstractions of global management. When a people’s arms are turned outward without limit, the household at home begins to dissolve under the weight of debt, demographic strain, and moral fatigue.
Washington’s Farewell Address warned the young republic against permanent foreign entanglements precisely because such commitments erode the sovereignty the Revolution had secured. The present campaign follows the same logic that drew earlier generations into distant conflicts whose costs were borne by the yeoman while the gains accrued to distant interests. The IRGC and its proxies act as instruments of their own theocratic ambition, but the American leadership that keeps forces in the region bears equal responsibility for the resulting attrition.
The governing principle remains unchanged since the days of the undivided Church and the Christian monarchies that followed: a nation exists to preserve its own people, faith, and territory under God, not to underwrite the security architecture of every contested border. Scripture records the repeated judgment upon kings who multiplied alliances and horses in Egypt instead of trusting the defense the Lord had already granted. The City of Man always promises security through perpetual motion; the City of God measures security by fidelity to the inheritance already received.
Continued participation in this war therefore constitutes a direct violation of the duty of national self-preservation. The wounds concealed by the Pentagon are not accidents of battle; they are the predictable fruit of a policy that treats American blood as a diplomatic bargaining chip. Every additional strike deepens the entanglement and multiplies the hidden ledger of injured fathers, sons, and brothers whose return will burden households already strained by economic and cultural dissolution.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject further entanglement and demand the immediate redirection of American arms to the defense of the southern border and the restoration of domestic order. This requires the removal of those officials and institutions that have made foreign theaters the measure of national strength. Only when the sword is sheathed abroad can the sword be rightly employed at home to secure the demographic and spiritual inheritance of the American people.
