The U.S. government’s attack on Iran fails every rule of Christian “just war” theory. It trashes what little is left of the Constitution. And possibly worst of all, it is stupid.

Just war principles require action to be taken to protect the innocent or redress grave injury. They require that all peaceful alternatives are exhausted. The war initiated must have a reasonable chance of success. The rule of “proportionality” requires that the costs of action do not outweigh the intended benefit.

Churlishly, we attacked while negotiations were under way (like Japs at Pearl Harbor). We murdered the other country’s legitimate leaders, a gangsterism no honest government can justify. Iran offered no grave threat or injury to us. In fact, they sensibly avoided it. True, a half century ago, they violated our embassy in the midst of their revolution to overthrow the absurd “Shah” that we imposed on them. And they have a hostile-talking Islamic government. But they have accepted unjust sanctions and weapons inspections. They know it is not in their interest to provoke the U.S.

Incredibly, our Secretary of State said we had to go to war because our little client state was going to war whether we liked it or not. Such was the reason for sacrificing our blood and treasure. Our Founders would have considered this blatant TREASON against the American people.

The Israelis have been declaring for over 40 years that Iran will have nuclear weapons with a few weeks or so. This is a lie. The purpose of the lie is to make sure that Israel remains the only nuclear power in the region. President Kennedy was trying to prevent Israel getting nukes when he was killed.

Countries want nuclear weapons for defense, as a deterrent. They have not been used since 1945. It might be good if Iran had some, like a number of other countries. It would deter Israeli aggression and dominance.

And the U.S. undertook this attempt at regime change, apparently not having noticed that previous such attempts have been catastrophic failures. Our leaders learn nothing and are never held responsible for their mistakes. That is the opposite of government of, by, and for the people. Such leadership is a sign of decadent imperialism. New York thugs like Trump and pretty boys like Rubio cannot make statesmen. The top generals are not soldiers but have risen to the top as a— kissing and backstabbing bureaucrats.

Donald Trump promised to avoid such folly. But he has now joined George W. Bush as one of this century’s chief war criminals. How did that happen? We may never know.

We were told that once we murdered their leaders, the Iranians would rise up for democracy and peace. The media savants liked this because they see the Iranian dissidents as nice liberals like themselves. To them it seemed OK to bomb useless civilians for a higher good.

Are our political and military leaders too ignorant or too deluded by their power to notice facts that don’t fit their shallow view of the world? I doubt if any of our Congresspersons or generals actually know any relevant history. How many of them do you imagine can actually read an Iranian newspaper?

Iran is not Iraq. It is a big country of 90 million or so, with highly intelligent scientists, dedicated soldiers, and leaders who actually love and want to serve their people, unlike Western politicians. It is the heir of a once mighty Persian Empire. And, if Islamic extremists are a threat to us, why have our leaders been importing them in hundreds of thousands? For Diversity?


By following a sensible and moderate policy, Iran has managed to throw the American “cake walk” into a quagmire.

We are apparently expending our high ordinance at a serious rate. It cannot be replaced quickly because our “leaders” have shipped the factories overseas. It is reported that our billion dollar air craft carriers can’t get too close because they can easily be wiped out by enemy missiles. And the U.S.S. Gerald Ford had to be recalled because of sewage problems. Ironically appropriate for a warship named for the shallow man who was never elected and became President only by accident.

Sadly, Trump has destroyed all hope for the domestic reform that he promised. The Democrats will regain power and continue us into the Obama-Biden decadence that will finish of the dream of a free and honourable America.

The Last Half Century to the Present


Rather than continuing my detailed history of the Southern people I wish to comment on our situation at the moment, 2026, and prospects for the future.


We have never been in greater danger of losing our identity as of the South. The population has changed. There are rust belt refugees. Some of these are good people who have joined us for the right reasons, others not. Vast numbers of Mexicans, Asians of various sorts, and others populate our cities. It was on our former territory, Charlotte, that a depraved criminal immigrant murdered a legitimate immigrant. Such a thing would have been beyond imagining or comprehension 60 years ago when I was covering the Charlotte police beat for the local daily.


Our symbols have been subjected to malicious destruction, although that ridiculous campaign, an attempt to obliterate American as well as Southern history, has brought forth a good deal of opposition. A statue of Ceasar Rodney, a heroic signer of the Declaration of Independence, was removed because he, like almost all of the Founders, Northern and Southern, was the master of imported and native-born Africans.


A lot has been said about the South’s increasing prosperity in recent times. That is good, but I am of the impression that the rewards go disproportionately to bankers, developers, carpetbaggers, politicians, and bureaucrats. Working and middle class men and women are still enlisting in the imperial armed forces, real jobs being scarce in our looted economy.


Yet the South has a soul, unlike materialist mainstream America. We have always been able to absorb newcomers. A fourth of Confederate generals were Northern or foreign born. Many aspects of our culture and our history remain honoured by and attractive to civilised and intelligent people beyond our borders.


There were Southerners before there were “Americans.” Or to put it another way, Southerners were the first Americans. What we have known as the South existed more than two centuries before the U.S. government—now a bloated criminal empire unrecognisable to our Founders.


Even after our just and noble war for independence failed, we kept our identity. We were never quite acceptable as “Americans” and that did not bother us at all.


There are still millions of us. Beleaguered as our homeland has been, we have the truest connection to American origins of any of the motley groups now to be found in the United States.


It has been almost a century since Twelve Southerners issued I’ll Take My Stand. They hoped to provide a humane alternative to the standard American materialism, whether capitalist or collectivist. Their ideas are still true. Without Southern literature, music, humour, chivalric instincts, and manners “American” culture would be an impoverished thing of money and ideology.


We need to preserve the South in these difficult times because it is ours. But also, a Southerner is a good thing to be, a valuable contribution to waning Western civilisation.


I have been encouraged for some years now by the bright young people who have been reconnecting with their Southern roots in a society where no other real identity is to be found.


We need to remember who we are and promote and preserve our identity as a people in every way possible. Our people are sound in their hearts and some leaders have provided good direction in recent times. But we need a lot more leadership. History is not fixed and the future is to some extent ours to bring about.

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James Warley Miles, South Carolina’s internationally recognised theologian, in 1863 said something we all should remember: “No people has ever wholly existed without a meaning.”

The U.S. government is not a government of, by, and for the people. It was a lie when Lincoln said it, and it is an even bigger lie now. 


There are many problems with that statement, but a major one is who are “the people”? Perhaps at the end of World War II Americans became almost one people, for the first and last time. Real national unity did not exist before that, and immigration and “diversity” ideology have destroyed any future hope for national unity. 


Even when it almost existed, national unity was mainly window dressing for the corporate state capitalism that Lincoln and his friends substituted for the honourable republicanism of the Southern founders. State capitalism is our ruling system - private ownership and profit with government support. Free markets don’t really exist wherever there is large -scale corporate power. Most of our wealth is now in the portfolios of billionaires, domestic and foreign, and most of our work shipped out to cheap labour places. 


How can “the people” rule when we no longer even know who the people are?Israelis and Palestinians protest and fight each other in our streets. Why are they even here with their problems irrelevant to the American “people”? 


A synagogue is attacked, it turns out by a Lebanese-born “citizen” angered by Israelis. Why were this citizen’s murdered children still in Lebanon or why was he here without them? And Iranian exiles are in our streets cheering on the war that is consuming our blood and treasure? Who are “the people”? 


How can the people rule when the unelected and untouchable Supreme Court has literally changed American society in major ways over the last three-quarters century - imposing “law” for ideological changes that “the people” never voted for or even approved of? How can “the people” rule when there are things we all know are true but are punished when we say them in public? When there is no real public debate and the agenda is controlled by very rich people who own the major media? When most Congresspersons answer to their supposed party interests rather than the interests of “the people”? 


Our rulers never feel punishment for their bad deeds. Bush the Lesser starts an illegal, dishonest, failed war and is re-elected. Joe Biden is suffering no embarrassment from having created vast unwanted demographic change in the American population. 


Foreign “regime change” has been a catastrophic failure, and Trump is doing it again despite all his promises. He is a betrayer of his people, almost the last remaining “Americans.” Just as we feared all along. Someone gave him good material to run on, but what we got was just another smart-aleck New Yorker who cannot resist the temptation of imperial power. 


We will probably never know all about the Epstein files. Some millionaire ought to hire a team to go through the vast collection and find the truth, but that will not happen. Has anyone explained why so much is redacted? What we do learn is that pedophilia is deep in our ruling class. They don’t feel the consequences of anything they do, so breaking a last taboo tempts them to show their power and superiority. 


Have you noticed that the people rioting against law enforcement in Minneapolis don’t seem to have jobs they need to go to? Have you noticed recently that when horrid savage crimes are committed the criminal has been arrested ten times previously but is somehow still out on the street? How does this happen? Do our courts provide justice for protected groups but not for us> 


Perhaps we are experiencing the inevitable decline of a society that makes the slick politician and war criminal Abe Lincoln its greatest hero and symbol. ​

​I saw an interview with a candidate for Governor of Iowa. He bragged about what a fine American tradition he and his State represent. His forebears were Germans who arrived in 1850. They are proud to have answered Abraham Lincoln’s call for troops to invade, devastate and conquer the South - whose people had been here two centuries earlier and founded America.


I suppose that is what he means by “Making America Great Again.” 


Over recent years I have had two different drug insurance companies. Both have provided information in 22 foreign languages. Must be a federal regulation to help immigrants. 


Iran: Yankees always think their killing people is good because they are righteous. When victims fight back they are defamed as atrociously evil. 


When will Southerners stop joining the military of the U.S. Deep State that hates us? The virtue of Patriotism is the love of one’s people, not of the government. Building better sources of employment for our young people would be a world-changing act of philanthropy if it could be done. 


What possible good can the attack on Iran do the American people? And Trump promised no more violent “regime change.” He is proved a liar, a betrayer of his base, and weak. At bottom he is a smart-aleck New York advertising man with delusions of grandeur just like his critics have said. 


Iran is not Iraq or Syria. It is the ancient powerful Persia and it is by no means clear that most of its people really want a change. Facts indicate it is a long way from nuclear weapons which have been predicted for 47 years. It is now forbidden even the potential for nuclear weapons so that Israel can remain the only nuclear power in the region. That’s the simple and true explanation of the U.S. government initiating war. It is unreasonable to think we can forbid a large power from having even peaceful nuclear facilities. No significantly strong country can accept that. 


The “regime change” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were excused by the claim that we were retaliating against attacks. This time the U.S. is attacking because of an imaginary future danger. The President has gone to war by choice like any emperor or monarch of the past. 


And nobody has even noticed the final death of our poor old tattered Constitution where the President cannot launch a war without a considered vote of Congress. For a long time we have been tending for the President to become Emperor and now we are there. Julius Ceasar has abolished the Republic. 


Preemptive attacks of this scale are always morally dubious and productive of unintended consequences. Alas, Southerners are captives of the American Empire, and thus sharers in a sinful regime and subjects of an inevitable blowback.
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