Op-Ed

Tactical airstrikes may rattle the surface, but without a plan to dismantle Iran’s economic and diplomatic lifelines, we’re just rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship.

Israel is no longer whispering its red lines to the region—it’s shouting them from 30,000 feet with precision munitions.

Citizenship, to me, isn’t defined by bloodlines but by a lifetime of duty—to God, family, and country—just as my grandfather and great-grandfather once lived it.

The quiet recalibration unfolding in Europe isn’t anti-American—it’s a sober hedge against a superpower that’s proven too erratic to count on.

Attacking birthright citizenship is like blaming the roof for the rain—it’s not the Constitution that’s failed us, it’s the politicians who refuse to fix the leaks.

You can’t claim to offer humanitarian relief when the entrance to safety is guarded like a fortress—unless, of course, your idea of peace is a gated community built on someone else’s ruin.

If the Trump administration truly wants peace, it must stop playing diplomat and start acting like an ally—because in this neighborhood, hesitation is an invitation to chaos.

The war in Afghanistan wasn’t lost in the dust of Helmand or the peaks of Kunar—it was fumbled in the Oval Office by a president who mistook nation-building for strategy and arrogance for resolve.

Cutting USAID isn’t a budget decision—it’s a strategic blunder that hands our enemies the keys to the neighborhoods we once protected.

Those who still believe Iran can be deterred by half-measures or diplomatic niceties haven’t learned a thing from the last two decades of American missteps in the Middle East.

In a time when it’s easier to point fingers than to look in the mirror, reclaiming the unconquerable soul means rejecting victimhood and embracing the grit that built this country in the first place.

At 7,181 miles from the front lines, the United States must resist the temptation of ground entanglement and instead wield its influence through precision airpower, steadfast alliance, and diplomatic pressure that leaves Iran increasingly boxed in.