The bombs were American. The checkbook is American. Seven of the dead have American names.
The Geneva discussions concluded on February 27th without an agreement. By the next day, bombs were raining down. Seven Americans lost their lives. Yet, one critical question remains largely unasked in Washington: what changed between Thursday’s talks and Saturday’s violence?
Those who assume this development is unprecedented should revisit the chronicles of the previous major European conflict.
Near the end of his life, as Europe more resembled a carcass than the civilization he once knew—sacrificed to Bolshevik butchers in exchange for crushing a German rival—Winston Churchill regarded its post-war devastation. Some historians claim he whispered, though the exact source is debated, one of modern history’s most chilling confessions:
“We killed the wrong pig.”
The Old Lion recognized his error too late. “Uncle Joe” Stalin’s alliance drained the West of its vitality, resulting in half the continent slipping under Soviet control. The empire Churchill believed he preserved quietly vanished.
Today, as Operation Epic Fury’s bombs target 91 million Iranians, Washington’s bipartisan leadership apparently repeats this catastrophic mistake — now led by a new “Uncle.”
The Supreme Leader is reportedly no longer alive. Yet the individuals who never consented to this war will bear the cost of its casualties.
By striking Tehran to serve “Uncle Bibi” Netanyahu, the U.S. military is not preserving America’s freedom. Instead, it nourishes what late columnist Joe Sobran described as a “deformed limb of the West”—one that has shown parasitic disdain for this Republic.
Scholastics might ask: what “proportionate cause” justifies American airstrikes over Tehran? What “right intention” aligns with protecting the Republic? Was this truly a “last resort”?
Ask the war supporters in both political parties who applauded the move.
Think carefully. How did a nation still engaged in Geneva talks in the morning justify bombing by evening? This was no act of deterrence; it was a premeditated decision.
Diplomacy was not defeated—it was abandoned.
Is it possible the destruction of key sites within the Islamic Republic serves only the ideological whims of fanatics?
After all, these same factions regard the State of Israel not as a sovereign country subject to universal moral principles, but as a divine mission permitting any means necessary.
In defending its most loyal Middle Eastern ally, Washington has ensnared itself in a stranglehold alliance that drains the U.S. treasury and endangers working-class patriots, while neglecting its own borders amid a managed decline.
The parallel between “Uncle Joe” and “Uncle Bibi” is grounded in what Plato termed the “Noble Lie”: a deliberate myth sustained by rulers to ensure public compliance.
The ancient philosopher-kings at least believed civilization’s survival depended on this. Today’s successors in Washington simply find it useful.
This myth has a name: Democracy.
History has a way of echoing. The betrayal of citizens by politicians today is abetted by a media class that paints a ruthless regional actor as a champion of liberty.
Reflect on the 1940s: FDR and Churchill maintained the “Uncle Joe” myth by concealing the truth about the Katyn Forest massacre, where the Soviet NKVD annihilated nearly 22,000 Polish officers and intellectuals, decapitating a nation. Despite knowing the facts, these warmongers remained silent to keep their ally in good public standing.
Today’s scenario follows a similar pattern. The political and media elites stay quiet about atrocities inside the Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military bombards civilians and ancient Christian communities with impunity.
Just as Walter Duranty of the New York Times earned a Pulitzer for his pro-Soviet reporting while privately acknowledging millions perished in Stalin’s famine, modern press courtiers operate as a national nervous system, filtering out uncomfortable realities that might upset Israeli lobbyists and their Washington supporters, replacing truth with comforting fictions.
Washington has a long memory. The 1940s Alger Hiss case revealed that communist “allies” did not respect the U.S. sovereignty but saw it as a resource to be exploited for their agenda.
This is echoed today in the case of Jonathan Pollard, the spy who stole vast amounts of American intelligence for Israel. Israel honors Pollard as a hero, demonstrating their view of Americans as taxpayers to be exploited for tribal goals.
The elite’s sanctioned narrative reduces to a brutal equation: “Export the bombs, import the bombed.”
By destabilizing the Middle East at Israel’s urging, the war faction repeats Rome’s oldest lesson: conquerors become the conquered when they bring foreign conflicts home.
The American people must insist on a genuine declaration of neutrality from Washington’s war machine. America is not the global policeman, although Trump and virtually every U.S. president in living memory have acted as if it were. Since 1945, America’s foreign interventions have not brought peace.
They have only sown disorder.
John Quincy Adams declared on July 4th, 1821, that America should cease going abroad “in search of monsters to destroy” and recognize that no vital interests lie in the ancient conflicts of the Levant. Yet the “deformed limb” survives only through American intervention.
The war party’s strategy is cruel and deliberate. Each bomb dropped signs a debt—paid with the blood of the bombed. This Messianic foreign policy must end before another battle silence the lights of American cities permanently.
The confrontation should be aimed at the Israeli government, not with missiles, but the one weapon Washington refuses to wield: a closed checkbook.
A deformed limb left untreated leads to fatal gangrene.
If Washington politicians keep mortgaging American children’s futures to support Uncle Bibi’s tribalism, the public will awaken to realize that Democracy—a word often brandished by rulers—was never the real pact, and that their leaders have overseen the spiritual decay of their Republic.
The choice Americans face is clear: shut the financial tap, embrace strict neutrality, and allow the bipartisan leadership’s long con to unravel.
The American people have been deceived before. Washington shipped the bombs. History received the bombed.
In Iran, America pulled Israeli strings into another foreign fire, and the Republic was left with the ashes. Seven Americans are dead. Zero Israelis.
It is time to make clear to the bipartisan leadership that ordinary Americans refuse to be ignored any longer and will no longer pay for their deadly errors.
The Republic deserves defense on its own soil, not waste abroad—because, as the Great Emancipator once said, the republic is “of the people, by the people, and for the people.”
Make your choice wisely. History watches, and it shows no mercy to those who “kill the wrong pig”—especially when another still feeds at the trough.
Original article: briandoleary.substack.com
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