DutifulDefiance

As the Pentagon's audacious demand for more than $200 billion to fuel an Iran war slices through the corridors of power, the ghosts of Iraq rise once more, whispering that this is no mere budget line item but the opening salvo of a sequel scripted in the same tragic ink. Watch how the familiar machinery grinds into motion: skeptical insiders quietly admitting the request has zero chance in Congress, yet the war drums beat louder, swelling with the promise of decisive action while the price tag balloons into the realm of the obscene. Just as before, vague threats are inflated into existential crises, internal dissent is buried under layers of classified urgency, and the nation is nudged toward another open-ended commitment where "limited strikes" inevitably birth full-scale occupation, trillions evaporated into desert sands, blood spilled for shifting rationales, and a Middle East left more fractured than ever. This isn't prudence or defense—it's the seductive trap of history's rerun, luring us into a quagmire where victory is always "just one more surge away," draining America's strength, treasure, and soul until the only winners are the contractors and the cynics who warned us all along. If we let this fiscal fever dream march forward unchecked, Iraq 2.0 won't be a cautionary tale; it will be our self-inflicted destiny, etched in red on the balance sheet of empire's folly.

My fellow Jews, Regardless of your politics, remember that Anti-Zionism would have meant: Abandoning Jews who survived the Holocaust to a fate of horror and a second death in Europe. Abandoning the Jews of Soviet Russia to the clutches of the KGB. Abandoning Ethiopian Jews to certain death and annihilation. You don't have to believe in political zionism to be a Zionist; all you need is to have a soul.

BREAKING: Israel has shut down the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity.

The Iranian theocracy was an imminent threat. They were committed to our destruction and anyone telling you otherwise is misleading you. Between their lethal plotting against US targets, their continued efforts to shield their attempt to reconstitute their nuclear program using ballistic missiles, their global terror support, and their destructive drone program, there’s zero doubt about the threat level. Zero.