Forever Free

Laura is rage-baiting because the war that she and her benefactors advocated for is going terribly. One of the fundamental reasons the war in Iran is failing is a lack of basic understanding of both the country we started a war with and of the Middle East as a whole. Loomer displays this lack of understanding/inability to assess the threat environment, and the sad irony here is that because our leaders have listened to rhetoric like hers we’ve now successfully radicalized the Iranians—so not only are we taking our eye off the very legitimate threats still posed by ISIS and Al-Qaeda, we will almost certainly face blowback terrorism as a result of the Iran war here on U.S. soil. My late wife was killed by an ISIS suicide bomber. At the time of her death, the Iranian-backed Shia militias & the Assad regime were also actively fighting against ISIS. That is a fact. Iranians have targeted Americans, but only when we intervened in their region. That is not sympathizing with the enemy—that is also, simply, a fact. In Trump’s first administration, he exercised restraint—conducting a measured and effective retaliatory response via targeted strikes (Solmani), while having the discipline to not take the bait of a full-blown war with Iran, precisely because we knew it would result in the same disastrous outcome we’re dealing with today. Unfortunately, this time around POTUS opted to listen to the likes of Laura and the Israeli lobby instead of those who actually understand the region & the threat—and now that we are in this mess and public support has cratered, Loomer & her ilk are blindly screaming “Islam!” as a distraction. It’s the same tired Bush-era “with us or with the terrorists” binary that got us twenty years of failure. The American people deserve better.

Our nation was founded by rejecting a failed system that no longer served We the People. Through their undaunted courage, our Founding Fathers birthed this nation and created a system that empowers us to replace the government when our leaders fail us. In our lifetimes, we have watched our government drag us into pointless wars to sustain an empire that enriches and empowers only the elites, while the American way of life deteriorates here at home. We are blessed in this: 250 years ago, our Founders didn’t merely grant us the right to change our government—they made it our duty. We now face an onslaught of propaganda claiming that, despite another foolish war in the Middle East and rampant corruption, those in power have our best interests at heart. This is designed to deceive, provoke, and demoralize us. Don’t take the bait. View it all with clear eyes and resolve to change it. This nation is not merely “an idea” to be reshaped by the selfish whims of those in power, nor is it a “failed experiment.” This nation is our home, our heritage, and our sacred duty to preserve for future generations. By breaking free from the failed political system that enabled this rot, we can restore our wounded Republic. Rejoice that we live in the greatest, freest nation the world has ever known. Never give up hope. Never stop fighting for what it is our duty to protect. God bless the United States of America.