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Massad Boulos has carried the administration’s standard into Libya, pressing rival governments toward a unified authority whose first fruits will flow to American drillers rather than to any stable order among the Libyan people.
The public claim of fostering democracy and ending armed strife masks the older motive: a direct exchange in which political recognition and diplomatic cover secure privileged extraction rights for firms tied to the same managerial class that has hollowed out domestic industry.
This pattern repeats the post-war turn in which Western powers abandoned the just-war restraints inherited from Christendom and began treating foreign lands as reservoirs of raw material rather than as sovereign realms under God’s law.
The governing principle remains unchanged since the age of the Nicene settlement: a nation may defend its legitimate interests, yet it must do so within the bounds of ordered stewardship, honest measure, and fidelity to its own household rather than as an instrument of corporate appetite.
When oil becomes the decisive end of diplomacy, the state ceases to act as guardian of a people and becomes instead the servant of the Dispossessor who reduces every territory to a ledger entry and every alliance to a contract for plunder.
Scripture condemns the prince who weighs his throne by the weight of foreign treasure while his own fields lie untilled and his own sons are sent to guard pipelines that serve no ancestral hearth.
The faithful remnant must therefore refuse to bless these bargains and must demand that American power be withdrawn from every theater where it serves only extraction rather than the defense of borders, kin, and Christian inheritance.
Until that demand is made and enforced, every peace accord brokered for crude will simply extend the reign of the City of Man over the remnants of ordered liberty.
