Perspective: War, Like Death, is an Inevitability. Tucker’s Sudden Shift from That Truth

 While we are not fond of either, their visitation is a certainty. We do everything we can to hold them at bay, but their manifestation is as predictable as the moon, sun, stars, rotation of the earth and birth.

 The worst thing we can do in preparation is not to prepare for both. Hoping, yearning, stomping your feet and renaming or redefining the protagonists engaged in either as a vain attempt to hold them off simply rushes their arrival and diminishes our ability to not succumb to them faster.

Tucker Carlson’s equation regarding War is infantile and unrealistic. He has decided to redefine the core beliefs of a known enemy (without consulting with them), turned on an ally and decided that any effort, even kinetic, to preserve the US is not only fraught with error but entirely immoral. As it pertains to this current war, he surely seems to argue that Iran is the victim of the USA’s unwarranted aggression. 

This comes on the heels of his curious new epiphany that the Moslem states in the Middle East are docile friends with no underlying hostile intentions toward us. Coincidentally, he seems to have also decided that Israel’s existence is illegitimate and hostile, that any relationship with them is unilaterally opportunistic in their desire to conquer and expand by swallowing up territory, even though no one would be able to provide a single example of Israel under the Israelites or the modern return of those in dispersion seeking to or expanding beyond the land promised them in Gen 15:18-21.

So, he has decided that Islam = good/benign + Israel = bad/hostile ∴ USA/Israel Alliance = bad. Aside from his lack of understanding of the players on the field of battle I expect based on his established presupposition that religion(s) are all equal and benign, he further seems to think that all war is bad, equal, and that Israel in some as yet explained way has managed to neuter the USA and is using us without our knowing it. 

He apparently has never considered the possibility that our two foci could be diverse and yet mutually supportive, i.e., Israel is taking care of Israel and the USA is taking care of the USA.

Tucker was in fifth grade when the Iranians ousted the secular government in favor of the ideologically poisonous theocrats led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1979 during which they also sacked the American Embassy, taking civilian and Marine hostages after the Peanut Farmer posing as an American President ordered the Marine Security Guard to stand down. They were held for 444 days before an actual President threatened their destruction unless they released them. He was just entering ninth grade when the Marine Barracks in Beirut was hit, killing 241 U.S. and 58 French military personnel and six civilians. Two hundred twenty of those were fellow Marines.

Since then, through proxies or direct assault the Mullahs have killed an additional 2,000 Americans and thousands of Israelis while leaving an equal number with catastrophic wounds. 

But Tucker apparently believes that after 47 years of continual harassment, bombings, kidnappings, death, mutilation, interference with free passage of shipping, non-stop threats, and ideologically fueled belief in the allah-ordered annihilation of both Israel and the Great Satan (USA), that “diplomacy” and, apparently further tribute payments, vis a vis Obama/Biden, is the only acceptable interaction. Short of that, we ultimately have earned whatever punishment the Mullahs can conjure for us, to which I say, “NUTS!” (Gen. McAuliffe 1944)

Further debate with someone like him is a waste of time; however, an actual thought-out public response with real data might cut into his passive-aggressive, historically false, retching rhetorical bait designed to do what all conspiracy theorists use it for, including floating questions, absurd possible counter-narratives, denigrating everyone supplying answers, overwriting long-established history and ignoring or rewriting religious teachings which ironically would put the ideological sword to the nape of his kuffar neck for insulting the holy quran, allah and his prophet mo, were he to do that in Azadi Square.

To his suggestion that Israel should never have existed and that its goal is to expand territorially, I will include a timeline of conquest for the Holy Land itself. Like every other square inch of land surface on the earth, “ownership” has been fleeting. Only those with the means and the will have ever held onto their nations, and that has been only until someone stronger and more determined comes along.

Like it or not, the current State of Israel has existed for the past 78 years and will continue as long as its people continue to desire it so:

BC

bc. 7000: Jericho is a walled settlement

bc. 5000-4000: Land of Canaan is occupied by Canaanites, then Amorites and Jebusites.

bc. 1200: Israelites under Joshua enter Promised Land.

bc. 930: Israel splits into northern kingdom of Israel and southern kingdom of Judah (including Jerusalem).

bc. 720: Northern kingdom conquered by Assyria and its 10 tribes sent into exile.

bc. 700: Southern kingdom’s King Hezekiah cuts tunnel from Gihon Spring to Pool of Siloam.

bc. 701: Assyrians conquer much of southern kingdom; Jerusalem is besieged but survives.

bc. 597: Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon captures southern kingdom and Jerusalem.

bc. 587: Following rebellion, Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem and First Temple, deporting most of population to Babylon (in present-day Iraq).

Persian Rule  

bc. 539: Cyrus the Great of Persia conquers Babylon and allows Jews to return from captivity.

Hellenistic Rule    

Bc. 332: Alexander the Great conquers Persian Empire, including all of Palestine.

bc. 323: Alexander dies and his kingdom is divided into four parts; Palestine falls under Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt, then under Seleucid Empire of Syria.

bc. 175: King Antiochus IV of Syria bans traditional Jewish practices and desecrates Temple.

bc. 167: Judas Maccabeus leads successful revolt against Seleucid Empire, rededicates Temple and restores religious freedom.

bc. 37: Rome proclaims Herod as King of Israel, now a Roman client state, ending the Hasmonean Dynasty.

Roman rule  

bc. 20: Herod expands Temple Mount and rebuilds Temple.

bc. 3: Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem.

AD

26: Pontius Pilate becomes procurator of Roman province of Judea.

30: Jesus is condemned to death and crucified.

70: Romans destroy Jerusalem and Second Temple.

73: Masada falls to Romans.

130: Emperor Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem, renaming it Aelia Capitolina, and puts pagan temple over site of the Crucifixion and Resurrection.

Byzantine rule   

330: Constantine moves his capital from Nicomedia to Byzantium (renamed Constantinople, now Istanbul).

570: Birth of Muhammad.

614: Persians capture Jerusalem

622: Muhammad escapes assassination in Mecca and flees to Medina, his flight marking first year of Islamic calendar.

629: Emperor Heraclius I re-establishes Byzantine rule in Jerusalem and recovers True Cross stolen by Persians.

Islamic rule   

638: Islamic forces conquer Jerusalem, beginning rule by succession of Arab dynasties.

1071: Seljuk Turks capture Jerusalem, persecuting Christians, desecrating churches and barring pilgrims.

Crusader rule   

1099: First Crusade captures Jerusalem and establishes Latin kingdom; Dome of the Rock becomes church called Templum Domini (Temple of the Lord).

1187: Sultan Saladin defeats Crusaders at Horns of Hattin above Sea of Galilee, then takes Jerusalem.

Islamic rule, again   

1219: St Francis of Assisi visits Egypt and meets Sultan Melek al-Kamil.

1229: During Sixth Crusade, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II negotiates return of Jerusalem and other Christian sites to Crusader kingdom.

1244: Jerusalem is sacked by Khwarezmian Tartars; control quickly passes to Egyptian Ayyubids and then Mamluks, who rule until 1517.

1291: Crusaders’ last foothold, Acre, falls to Mamluks.

Ottoman rule  

1517: Ottoman Turks take control of Palestine from Mamluks.

1839: British Jew Sir Moses Montefiore proposes idea of a modern Jewish state.

1860: First Jewish immigrant neighborhood outside Old City of Jerusalem is established, funded by Sir Moses Montefiore.

1878: “Status Quo” defining possession of holy places is incorporated into international law by Treaty of Berlin.

1917: British government’s Balfour Declaration backs establishing Jewish homeland in Palestine, without prejudice to “civil and religious rights” of non-Jewish population.

British mandate

1917: British forces under General E. H. Allenby capture Palestine from Ottoman Turks.

1922: League of Nations approves British mandate of Palestine.

1946: Jordan gains independence from Britain.

1947: United Nations Partition Plan calls for a Jewish state and an Arab state in Palestine, with Greater Jerusalem (including Bethlehem) under international control; most Jewish groups accept plan but Arabs reject it.

1948: Amid civil unrest and violence, Britain withdraws from mandate.

Israel and Palestinian Territories

1948: After Jewish provisional government declares Israel an independent state, Arab forces invade.

1949: Israel prevails in Arab-Israeli War, though Egypt holds Gaza, and Jordan the West Bank and East Jerusalem; more than 700,000 Palestinians become refugees.

1967: In Six-Day War against Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Israel occupies Sinai, Gaza, Golan Heights, West Bank and East Jerusalem.

1973: In Yom Kippur War against Egypt and Syria, Israel makes further territorial gains.

1979: Israel and Egypt sign peace treaty; Israel agrees to return Sinai to Egypt.

Conjuring a definition of legitimacy just to assuage some underlying hatred or even self-loathing is not only a sign of a certifiable mental malady, but also entirely destructive to everyone around you. Tucker’s claims of illegitimacy for the current attack on Iran and his redefining of good/evil is, I suspect, born of frustration, boredom, seeking to create and/or to feed a following. However, what it is actually doing is further alienating an already fractured “Conservative” bloc which will only benefit the monolithic Left and give aid and comfort to a 1,400-year-old enemy of civilization that has already aimed its guns at us. This is not about following blindly; questioning is for personal illumination, not a tool to surreptitiously sway those who never research.

Tucker, it’s time to make a choice between notoriety and your country. We Marines have made clear where we stand, and hundreds have been killed and mutilated at the hands of the demonically possessed theocrats in Iran, crimes for which they have never been held to account until now! The Dems, whether out of greed and avarice, to gain or maintain power, sheer ignorance or worse, in complicit sedition have been undermining US hegemony, sovereignty, security and well-being since 1945. And Tucker, the evidence indicates that you have thrown in with them.

Say it ain’t so…

Semper Fidelis:

John Bernard

Unapologetically America First; Perspective on Pete Hegseth’s Remarks 03/02/2026

 Even while early polls suggest a certain trepidation by the Citizenry over this campaign against the Islamist Regime in Iran, the vast majority of Americans support the concept of an America First agenda. The majority of the War Fighting community was energized by Pete’s speech not the debrief on the battle to date but his comments about putting the final nails in the coffin lid housing the astoundingly anti-American, 80 year, Democrat initiated concept of an endless series of protracted wars with crippling ROE’s, denials of Air Support, concerns for enemy combatants and civilians in the battle space over an even insincere public display of a minimal concern for the benefit of our War Fighters; no intention of winning, no victory, no resolution.

Hegseth, speaking for himself and for President Trump and for those of us who have been in Battle and for those of us who have lost loved ones in this 80 year demonic experiment yielding a series of money-making endless Counter Insurgency/Police Actions/Self-Limiting Wars which has done nothing but embolden the enemy, fill the pockets of degenerate politicians and soulless profiteers, assuage the feelings of feckless, unaffected and misplaced concern Leftists and those dripping with disdain for their Country.

That has now ended.

War is not something societies evolve away from. War is as much an inevitability as is Death. Pretending otherwise is for Sci-Fi authors, screen writers and those living in a constant state of dreams. War is a natural consequence of the failure of civil discourse between an aggrieved party and an incalcitrant abuser. Within a civilized society it is resolved in a Court of Law. Between Nations, it is resolved on the Battlefield IF, both sides commit. COIN, was one belligerent telling the other they could win by attrition. Since 1945, that uncommitted belligerent has been us. The fruit of that unforgivable stance has been enrichment of those who supply war materiel, the politicians who speak for them in Congress, the Democrat Party who, speaking on behalf of the Nation, abdicated our Sovereign Duty to defend these shores while minimizing the loss of American War Fighter’s lives and with it our very Sovereignty.

Korea, Vietnam, the Tehran Embassy, the Barracks in Beirut, Bosnia, Somalia, the Cairo Embassy, Benghazi, Afghanistan and more; all under or because of  the failure of Democrat Leadership. American War Fighter’s lives lost, 100,000 and close to a 1,000,000 with catastrophic, life altering injuries, double that with PTSD and 10’s of thousands to related suicide.

NBC’s Richard Engle showed his true colors once again as a feckless, hand-wringing, globalist, never-for-America-first mouthpiece by decrying the attack on Iran in part by marginalizing the “past grievances” in part fueling this Campaign in which the demonically possessed Theocratic, Twelver Regime has racked up a body count of some 2,000 American deaths directly or through proxies; deaths unanswered by every President from Carter to Biden… until Trump.

Like President Jefferson before him (1801 Barbary Pirates), President Trump has said, no more! The world’s leaders had decided to placate/reward the Moslem Corsairs, operating out of Tripoli and for 300 years who attacked shipping, seizing cargo, enslaving crews, selling women to the Ottomans as sex slaves, by paying them ransom and protectionism rather than holding them accountable to the Sword and Cannon. Obama, the morally compromised tool, caught between his oathbound duty to his Office and his competing unquenchable love for the Moslem and Biden the mentally compromised, decided to follow the lead of those reprobate world leaders before Jefferson by loading cargo planes with pallets of currency, prostrating themselves before the Iranian, Theocratic  Regime’s throne, lifting sanctions and ceding the battlespace that the Ayatollahs had created.

Trump, like Jefferson, has ended that much to the chagrin of the political elite and that half of the citizenry who cannot let go of their hatred of one man long enough to discover some shred of abandoned, unique love for their country. I do not expect them to find any love for the War Fighting community. Having lived through the 60’s and having witnessed the quick devolution of the anti-war movement to an unforgivable, insatiable hatred for returning Marines, Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and Coasties, juxtaposed along side the likes of Omar, Talib, Engle, Maddow, Reid and the thousands who take to the streets flying foreign flags and oozing hatred for the Nation and my fellow War Fighters, I have learned to expect no more or less.

As all wars before and the ones to come, this Operation was inevitable. What wasn’t inevitable or even plausible given the past 47 years was the likelihood of a President who would live up to his Oath, determine to undo the uniquely democrat travesty of 1945 and to make the USA a primary focus again and to put all enemy States back on their heels not to be subservient, but simply to be non-threats.

…until President Donald j Trump and Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth!

Semper Fidelis;

John Bernard 

Is this Iranian Revolution Truly Hopeful:

Given:

99% of the Iranian population is Islamic.

93% of those are Shiite, Twelvers like the Mullah's.

Twelvers believe they are the chosen generation, jump-starting end time events and thus making way for the advent of the Mahdi and Isa by striking blows against Israel and the Great Satan, the USA.

1953, the USA and MI6 launched a covert operation to overthrow the sitting Prime Minister and install Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The concern was the growing influence of the Soviet Union over the sitting Regime and their intent to move oil to a state run asset.

1979, the Iranian Revolution, a popular action, was to overthrow the Shah Monarchy and by popular demand, to establish an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. During the Revolution, rioters sacked the US Embassy in Tehran, November 4th 1979 and took 66 US Citizens, holding them until January 20th 1981.

Sitting Democrat President Jimmy Carter ordered the Marine Corps Embassy guard to stand down and not resist. He ordered one catastrophically failed attempt to rescue those hostages on April 25, 1980. Republican Candidate Ronald Reagan threatened the Theocratic Regime, that if they failed to release the hostages he would order a Military strike on January 21st 1981, one day after being sworn in, should he win the election.

Democrats cry foul.

The hostages are released January 20th 1979.

The point being, what we are witnessing today is a grand case of buyers remorse. And we should not expect the Islamic, Shiite, Twelver population to suddenly become US allies or to change from their ideologically driven desire to see the "Great Satan" destroyed.

Any quenching of the ideological fire should be expected to be short lived.

Semper Fi;

John Bernard

Perspective: Dual Citizenship and Federal Elected Office:

 “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money." Matt 6:24

I can already hear some preparing to charge me with abusing Scripture to make a point. However, I will make my counter up front: Matthew uses a universal, temporal truism to enlighten a spiritual teaching. Using it in reverse is then not an issue for me.

As it applies to Elected Office and Dual Citizenship, I find it at the very least naive that those with no evidence of interest in assimilation should also be allowed to hold any Federal Office. Dual citizenship will preclude you from employment by certain 3 letter agencies but it's OK to hold Office where that same person has the authority to direct those same agencies??

Given that certain groups remain cloistered so as not to be "adversely" affected by dirty Americans and that they harbor ill will and active allegiance with their country of origin, it would be logical to disqualify them from holding office especially where holding office is not considered a natural Right. Worse yet, it cannot be predetermined how their bifurcated Loyalty will affect all future decisions.

The Deconstructionists will twist their reasoning skills into an unrecognizable knot to defend this manifestly dangerous flirtation with welcoming potential foreign agents into the Legislative chambers of Federal Governance. This only highlights their disdain for the Sovereignty and Security of the Nation.

There has been recent, high-profile disclosure of the Somalis embezzling money from federal autism funds and using it for personal bling and sending it to Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Coupling this with Ilhan Omar's continually displayed disdain for America, Americans, American culture, Constitutional vision are extant object lessons and a petri dish in danger of spilling over...

By the way, there isn't an official list of serving or past seated Reps or Senators holding dual citizenship because that information is considered "confidential and personal "...

Point being, this should never have been allowed; the establishment of de facto protectorates in Minneapolis, Dearborn, Houston, Dallas, Lewiston and more and certainly not allowing people with conflicting loyalties from holding any Federal job or Office - period!

SF

John Bernard

Trump's White House Renovations, New Cause for Outrage (10/21/2025):

 The Left has a whole new bone to gnaw on; the unforgivable physical changes Trump is making and has already made to the White House. But let's be honest; would this concern the Left as much if Clinton, Obama or Biden had done this? If not, then the real issue is the who and not the what. For a little context, JFK, Jacqui and Obama all discussed the need for a Ballroom. Are they guilty as well??

Every bit of bureaucratic red tape they say he has illegally bypassed would be dealing with the allocation of tax dollars exclusively, which are not being used here. Additionally, the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has been delegated all authority to oversee every bit of construction from one end of the Mall to the other - with zero Congressional oversight, beyond funding requests. What remains, is plan review, inspections and occupancy permits, the first of which is tacitly blessed by NCPC already (see below).

One enterprising gotcha-debater asked me how I would like some stranger entering my home and making changes without my permission (pointing out that it’s the People's House) Well, firstly, it isn't like we own anything, now does it? Property taxes, building permits, complex property boundary requirements, wetland protection laws, Home Owner Association rules, certain excise taxes, in some states, taxes on presumed property value increases, ad nauseum... They (the government) tell us what to do with our property all day, every day. Just ask the "owners" of property along Mass Ave in Lexington Mass how much they "own"...

Here's just a short list of changes the White House has seen for those earnestly, uniquely concerned about breaches of historical trust versus who is making these latest changes:

Whitehouse Construction, Remodeling, Additions, Repairs of note:

• 1791 Cornerstone laid under George Washington
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• 1814 Burned to the ground by the Brits
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• 1817 Monroe moves back in
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• 1830 North Portico built under Andrew Jackson
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• 1857 Harriet Lane added a Green House on the roof under Buchanan
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• 1870 - 1880 Grant and Hayes added several Conservatories
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• 1902 West Wing added as well as Tennis Courts and removed the Conservatories under T Roosevelt
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• 1909 West Wing expanded and remodeled and moved the Tennis Courts under William H Taft
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• 1913 Ellen Wilson added the Rose Garden under Woodrow Wilson
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• 1927 The Third Floor, Roof Remodeling and the Solarium under Calvin Coolidge
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• 1929 West Wing Fire Remodeling under Herbert Hoover
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• 1933 Second Floor added with personal swimming pool under FDR
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• 1942 East Wing built as well as a Movie Theater under FDR
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• 1948 – 1952 – The entire building was gutted/demolished and rebuilt including undergirding with the addition of a 22 foot deep foundation, reinforced concrete floors throughout, steel girders, new plumbing and electrical systems, new trim and a bowling alley, under HS Truman including the addition of the "Truman Balcony" which was very controversial at the time.
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• 1954 Putting Green under Eisenhower
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• 1969 Added a new one lane bowling alley under RM Nixon
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• 1970 Pool was filled creating the Press Briefing Room and transformed a bedroom into a Game Room under RM Nixon
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• 1975 Outside swimming Pool under Ford
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• 1977 Office of the First Lady in the East Wing under Jimmy Carter
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• 1993 Quarter Mile jogging track under Clinton
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• 2009 Michelle Obama created the White House Kitchen Garden and Barrack changed the Tennis Court to a Basketball court
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• 2025 Flagpole and Patio financed by Trump and Partners.
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• 2025 Construction started on a Ballroom/Function Hall, financed by donations under DJ Trump, side note: both Obama and Kennedy complained about the lack of suitable Function Hall space on the property...

" WASHINGTON (AP) — Demolition to build President Donald Trump’s new ballroom off the East Wing of the White House can begin without approval of the commission tasked with vetting construction of federal buildings, the Trump-appointed head of the panel said Thursday.

Will Scharf, who is also the White House staff secretary, said during a public meeting of the National Capital Planning Commission that the board does not have jurisdiction over demolition or site preparation work for buildings on federal property.

“What we deal with is essentially construction, vertical build,” Scharf said. He called Trump’s promised ballroom “one of the most exciting construction projects in the modern history of” Washington.

He made the comments during the only public meeting of the commission scheduled before crews are expected to break ground on a $200 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom likely to greatly alter the look and size of both the White House’s East and West Wings. "

Semper Fi;

John Bernard

ADDENDUM 10/25/2025: Trump Ballroom; additional thoughts:

No improvement comes without destroying some history and without an associated feeling of guilt. But nothing on earth is eternal but the Soul. Everything else breaks down due to weather, dust, moth, rust, decay (Matt 6:19-21). What worked 100 years ago, usually does not work today without a lot of alteration including the necessary, pre-emptive Demolition of what is being upgraded which, is hard to watch for many. But, it is a reality of life on this Earth. Based on the outrage, you would think the naysayers had never seen demolition equipment much less demolition.

For those of my classmates I have been talking to about this and even some family, the Swain School and Wilmington High School held an enormous amount of history and memories for all of us and yet, they were both victims of the wrecking ball to make room for modern structures for those not yet given to sentiment.

Leveraging an accusation of sacrilege at those who plan and sanction the razing of any structures (even or possibly especially for church buildings, ie, 1 Cor 3:16) which are simply being removed for the sake of improvement and upgrade - especially when those same structures have been repeatedly remodeled and changed, is borderline Idolatry. The East Wing is just 83 years old and was a very simple functional space - not the White House; an addition to, the primary purpose for which was camouflage for the underground bunker it was used to mask.

It is hypocritical at the least for those same naysayers to take such umbrage with this particular, managed upgrade when they remained silent or to even have cheered on or instigated the razing of statues and monuments; the torching of Federal Buildings, setting Police Cruisers on fire, looting businesses and a long list of other crimes including murder in the wake of Floyd's death declaring those acts of unbridled violence as righteous acts.

Truthfully, this whole episode has very little to do with the What, if it weren't for the Who and the Who would be wrong as long he/she brandishes an R rather than a D. If Jacki Kennedy, JFK or Obama all of whom desired a Ballroom, had spearheaded this project, the exact same naysayers would demand the striking of a new Medal to hang around their necks. So this has a lot more to do with the visceral, unbridled hatred for a man, whom, ironically, as the Founders envisioned, left a lifetime of civilian productivity to Serve for a brief period of time, employing those very useful gifts, talents and experience he garnered over several decades for the better of the Nation as determined to be so by a majority of Electoral and Popular Votes.

In contrast, the Presidents they would have preferred do this including John F Kennedy (whom I deeply respected), Clinton, Obama, Biden and hopeful, Harris never held jobs on the outside that were not paid for by tax dollars or trust funds and thus no practical, transferrable, personal knowledge or experience to draw from to get the project they all thought was necessary, started or completed.

In this regard, Trump, a lifelong Builder and darling of the Left until he changed Parties, has in fact, the wherewithal, contacts and literal experience to start and complete what the others could only dream about.

At some point, those who are complaining about every little thing, who are planting the seeds of violent action including, ironically, exhorting their drones to buy and strap on guns, to target ICE agents, Republicans and by proxy, those who voted differently than they demand, attacking federal facilities, stopping traffic even preventing first responders passage if that is the way they want history to record them? History tends to record them as troublemakers and terrorists - not the freedom fighters they see themselves as...

Semper Fi;

John Bernard

Is Killing Narco Terrorists Illegal?

This entire new outcry about strikes on Narco boats is not a serious concern. The Politicians shedding tears for the Venezuelan "fishing" boats, were defending Obama when he hit targets in a half dozen Sovereign Nations during his two terms.

For all the Monday morning quarterbacks who are using one newspaper article, citing one anonymous source (the other 5 already said they had nothing incriminating to add), as their proof of breaches of international law, your application of outrage is suspect.

If a second strike, with or without "survivors" is what your conscience suggests is an unforgivable, inhumane, breach of the Laws of War, then you will be horrified to find out that every single attack helo op, ie, Blackhawk and Cobra, engaging enemy combatants/civilian terrorists, with not one, but several bursts of 20mm cannon fire and missiles firing is based exclusively on the determination of a 100% kill.

So not one burst, sometimes two, three and more - to ensure the killing of ALL of them. And when you factor in that the Cartels are now officially declared Terrorist cells, addressing them militarily is exactly the same as handling Al Shabaab, Taliban, Abu Sayyaf Group, Al-Nusrah Front, Ansar al-Sharia, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Boko Haram, HAMAS, Hizballah, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Jemaah Islamiya, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Tehrik-e Taliban, or any other Terrorist non-state threat.

By the way, the last formal declaration of war was in 1941. Everything since has fallen under COIN and the vast majority of those have fallen under the Presidential Powers Act.

A total of 563 drone strikes were approved by Obama' s Administration during the last years of his tenure including the targeting and killing of 4 American Citizens.

How many Democrats including the Seditious Six, accused Obama of War Crimes?

Rhetorical.

For Leftists who are earnestly concerned about International Law and protecting the Due Process Rights of American Citizens (as they claim), should look at Obama's record as listed below:

• Yemen 2010: A drone strike in Yemen intended for al-Qaeda militants instead hit a tribe, killing at least 55 people, including 21 children.

• Pakistan 2012: A strike in North Waziristan killed a 65-year-old woman gathering vegetables and injured several children, including her grandchildren.

• Libya 2015: A strike on an Islamic State training camp killed over 40 peoiple.

• Somalia 2016: A strike against al-Shabab killed 150 people. 

• Anwar al-Awlaki: An American citizen associated with al-Qaeda, al-Awlaki was killed in a drone strike in Yemen in 2011. This was the first time a U.S. citizen was intentionally targeted for a drone strike outside of an area of active hostilities. 

• Warren Weinstein and Giovanni Lo Porto: The administration later announced that an American aid worker and an Italian hostage were accidentally killed in a January 2015 strike in Pakistan. The same strike also mistakenly killed two al-Qaeda operatives who were U.S. citizens.

• Adam Gadahn: The U.S. drone strike in Pakistan that killed Weinstein and Lo Porto also resulted in the death of Adam Gadahn, another U.S. citizen who was a member of al-Qaeda.

If you weren't outraged then, and are still not, then you are engaged in selective outrage; cheering the lil' messiah while damning Trump for even less.

By the way, personally? I had no problem with Obama's strikes. What I hold him and every single Democrat accountable for, is every single COIN Op since 1945, all having been ordered by Democrats and all ending in disaster with the waste of American War Fighter's lives.

Mark Kelly is an absolute disgrace; issuing veiled threats against Service members while encouraging them to commit an act of insubordination and disobedience bordering on sedition based on the gut assessment of an 18 year old Private Schmucatelli, Seaman Rotten Crotch and 2nd Lt Dufus. Regardless of his Service Records, by issuing that Video statement/threat/call to Mutiny with zero supplied evidence of an extant, Trump/Jt Chiefs Order that is/was illegal. It was a partisan stunt sowing doubt with absolutely no concern for National Security or the welfare of American War Fighters - Period!

One-more-time:

PRESIDENTS ISSUE THEIR COMMANDER'S INTENT STATEMENT - NOT ORDERS!!

The Dems Encouraging Disobedience in the Ranks if not outright Mutiny - with zero specificity.....

Orders aren't made illegal because they "feel" wrong. And disobeying an Order because it causes friction with your delicate sensibilities will not save you from the Court-Martial.

By the way, all of us who have taken the Oath, past and present, know this, which doesn't let those six shills off the hook.

Orders are not sent from the White House and delivered directly to the Troops: 

1. The President issues his Commander's Intent to the Joint Chiefs

2. The Joint Chiefs discuss strategy, logistics, equipment, manpower and JAG scrutinizes the intent and balances it against the Constitution, Laws of War, International Commerce Law, the Geneva Conventions and everything else that may conflict.

3. They deliver their assessment to the President, he consults with the appropriate members of his Cabinet and gives it thumbs up/down.

ONLY THEN, is the Order assembled and distributed and then not in some disorganized cluster like a school sorority handing out fliers. It is done in meetings at every level of the Command structure where elements of the order are broken down for every single element of Command from the Pentagon to Private Schmucatelli who are ALL confident that by the time of their receipt, every dot and tittle has been scrubbed for every conceivable flaw - including Legality!! .

The six Dem Shills are telling 2,100,000 Service members from 18 - 60 years of age to be their own judge and to ignore their Oaths, effectively committing to Sedition! They are the very definition of sniveling political hacks and a serious danger to order in the ranks and thus pose a threat to US Security.

SF

John Bernard

ADDENDUM 12/03/2025 2045:

I add this to establish precedence:

May 10, 1801 - June 10, 1805

One of the first post war ventures that Jefferson ordered was deployment of the US Navy and their complement of Marines to stop the Moslem Corsairs in the Mediterranean at Tripoli.

Those Corsairs were regularly attacking shipping, seizing their cargo and enslaving the crews. If the owners or their flagged nations didn't pay a ransom, the crews were sold as slaves to other Moslem Nations or put to the sword. This happened in the Med, by the Moslem, Barbary Pirates from the 16th century onward.

They sunk ships, killed the crews, landed Marines and took Tripoli leaving many dead Moslem Pirates in their wake.

Those Corsairs had also been raiding the Atlantic Shoreline from Norway to the Iberian Penninsula, slaughtering the men and selling the women and children into slavery and brothels largely to the Moslem Ottomans in what today is Turkey. History records that entire villages disappeared in Ireland, England, Spain, Norway. 

They also raided African tribes, kidnapped people and sold them which is how slaves ended up in the USA; Black Moslems selling Black Africans to Slave holders (who were sometimes Black, btw),

Are Leftists prepared to accuse Jefferson of also doing "Illegal" things and committing Murder on the High Seas and for having not sought a Congressional Declaration?..again, Rhetorical! Most on that side have never heard of the Barbary Pirates or the Iberian Penn and couldn't find Tripoli on a map much less know who Lt Pressley O'Bannon was.

These Narco speed boats and their crews are engaged in slow-crawl Chemical Warfare, leading to the deaths of 100,000 Americans/year by fentanyl poisoning alone (thus my use of slow-crawl) not for ideological mandate, expansion, as punishment or for glory.

They are doing it for miserable money. Some of which, one day will prove to have come ashore as kick-backs all the way to the interior of DC.

The Supremacy of Individual Sovereignty; The Framers' Wisdom

The formal surrender of the British at Yorktown on 19 October 1781 was preceded by the adoption of the Articles of Confederation (AoC) March 31^st of that same year, creating a rough outline for a federal, centralized government of the new Nation. During the post-war years, there were several “housekeeping” items to attend to which included settling border disputes, reconstruction, economic restructuring and generally growing into Nationhood. The AoC stood as the law of the land and a rough guidance of governance during those 6 years:

American Experiment in the Restoration of Individual Sovereignty:

The Constitutional Convention convened on May 25 and concluded on September 17, 1787 with a first draft. For the next two years, disagreements were worked out over issues including Slavery, Districting, Taxation, Separation of Power and the Question of Rights. This last item, most agreed with although the full extent of language used to identify, establish and then to protect those Rights were not agreed upon until after Ratification in 1789.

The concept of Individual Rights was undergirded by established philosophical concepts including the most fundamental of which was the Sovereignty of the Individual without which there cannot be any legitimate government; that all government grows out of and is populated by the citizenry of Free Men who choose from among their number those who will serve the purpose of the Sovereign.

That purpose, in the USA is first to Support and Defend the Constitution within which is confirmation of the philosophically settled concept of the Sovereign Individual. If then, the concept of the Sovereign Individual is established (which it is), then it surely follows that the Individual’s Rights in this regard are as absolute temporally as God’s are, supernaturally and temporally; unquestioning, uninfringeable.

The Founders were quite clear in their rendering in the Constitution that they were speaking of their audience and those covered in the several Articles of the Constitution in very specific terms:

1.    The People were and remain, a collection of Sovereign Individuals as a subset of humanity, i.e., American Citizens. This is clearly explained in the Preamble although it is also common sense.

(see: https://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2025/11/we-people-preamble-we-people-of-united.html)

 

2.    That the Rights spelled out in the Bill of Rights are specifically of the People who are Sovereign Individuals and Citizens of the United States of America even while the concept is considered universal. These Rights are as much an intrinsic element of the Individual Sovereign’s being as are his Arms, Legs, Ears, Heart, Brain, Fingers, Toes and as much as the air he breathes and the Lungs, he has that move the air within his body.

 

3.    That the Rights codified by the Bill of Rights, are pre-existent and in common for any Sovereign anywhere on earth, which cannot be ethically, morally or legally interfered with (shall not be infringed) by fellow Sovereigns and certainly not by those servants the Sovereign has elected from the citizenry to carry out his directives.

Establishing the Bill of Rights was not a declaration of the beneficence of a higher authority bestowing upon it’s vassals privileges, it was in fact a simply stated listing and acknowledgement of the pre-existence of an established fact and a warning to those who might seek to infringe upon the Sovereign Individual Citizens of the USA  to freely engage their naturally occurring Rights/Philosophical Limbs and call back to the events of April 19^th, 1775.

The importance of the influence of Biblical teachings on the Founders cannot be overstated. The one side of the debate needs to expunge this element from the history of the USA and body politic; removing it as a mighty legal tool to delegitimize the rendering of the Constitution and specifically the Bill of Rights to allow them to dilute the Nation into something the Founders would not recognize. Until they win this fight and events in NYC as of November 4, 2025, should give us pause in this regard, history remains intact.

The Founders were not just Philosophes, they were Christians, Deists, Statesmen, Businessmen, Intellectuals, Historians and generally well read. Their dedication to the concept of Individual Sovereignty didn’t just come from the great Philosophers of their time and in antiquity, those conclusions were bolstered by Biblical Teachings, i.e., 1 Samuel 8, Gen 5:1,2, Gen 9:1 – 6 and at least 30 more verses in the Old and New Testaments which describe God as Sovereign over the entire Universe, over Time, Eternity, Creatures, Mankind, Land, Sea, Air, Space and beyond and his creating us in his image and giving us dominion over the earth.

Adam given all authority:

As we are made in his Image, and based on decrees in these verses, he has made us also Sovereigns over the Earth and surely over ourselves having created us with Free Will, Intellect and a mandate to subdue the earth. Logically, only a Sovereign could wield that kind of power. This begins with God’s command to Adam, Gen 1:26 – 28. While Adam’s sin lost him the luxury of Eden, his responsibilities to God, his family, the earth and creatures,  remained along with a newly “inherited” list of sin-born toil and hardships. Those responsibilities were passed down through his lineage until this very day and are laid upon all of us.

By whatever means a government assumes power, we are also bound to obey that government per Romans 13. However, the catch for us in the United States, is that the Constitution identifies us as the Sovereign having delegated certain authority to the several individuals, we vote for to carry out our desires. As such we have the responsibility of Supervision and Stewardship. That generally comes to us in the form of the Vote. Leaning on the submissive parts of Romans 13 exclusively will not save us from divine chastisement when this government eventually seeks to overstep its authority and to enslave us. We will be held accountable as the Sovereign as well.

Whether someone thinks this is right or wrong is not an issue when you understand that as American Citizens, we have inherited not only the milk and honey but the responsibilities of husbandry as well. The only legitimate way to get released from it is to renounce our citizenship and to seek domicile in a nation more suited to our personal vision of the government/subject contract as did the Israelites when they demanded a King.

Israelites demand a King:

The Bible provides us with many things not the least of which are examples of how to fail. The Old Testament/Tanakh is replete with examples of failure and the cost of failure and none more striking than the story in 1 Samuel 8 where the Israelites demand of Samuel in his old age to choose someone to be their King and to lord over them. Until that moment they had enjoyed autonomy and a direct relationship with God. But now, fear, slothfulness, lack of industriousness, lack of faith set them on a path for the first time, to be subjects of a King who would stand between them and God and at whose feet they would lay their autonomy, tribute, freedom and Individual Sovereignty.

The Israelites never recovered from that decision. They suffered at the hands of ruthless leaders, godless men, incursions, slavery, punishment, hardship, the loss of two Temples, enslavement to the Pharisees, Sanhedrin, Romans, Byzantines. From the 7^th century to the 11^th, the Moslem horde had control with a bit of a respite because of the efforts of the first Crusade, from 1099 – 1187 after which Saladin mounted an assault and reclaimed the land for Islam. It remained in Moslem control until WW I with the defeat of the Ottomans (Turkish Muslim Empire) and control was handed to Britain which they maintained until 14 May 1948 when the UN agreed to establish a sovereign Jewish state of Israel. Since that time, they have been under siege both diplomatically and kinetically and I suspect will remain so.

None of this was lost on the well educated Founders who along with the aforementioned Philosophers hypothesized a correct return to the divinely decreed, natural order of authority and the responsibility it demands, ie, God, Man, Family, Society, Self – in that order but with one acknowledgment of something that had been abandoned all of those millennia before, that God gave dominion to and sovereignty over to Man, the Earth and all that man would grow, cultivate, build, rear, create, including family. Government was an inevitability at this point but not in the vision of kingdoms and religious centric principalities. Government is made possible even essential by the Will of those Sovereign Individuals to do that which they demand and with the limited authority delegated to it, by them.

Delegation versus Surrender:

When you couple that with the conclusions of the great Philosophers, it is clear why the Founders drew up the Bill of Rights with no ambiguity and with such forceful language. It’s because they were convinced and duty bound to ensure their future generations could not have their Freedom and their Sovereignty taken away. The only way their autonomy and inherent Sovereign characteristics could be curtailed or expunged is by willful surrender or failure to remain vigilant or to engage proper custodial stewardship. The entire Constitution delineates the Power of the Sovereign Citizen, the duties and responsibilities of chosen/elected Representatives of and by the Sovereign in this regard and especially their limitations.  

The intent of the Constitution is to describe the enactment of efficacious Legislation, to protect the Nation and the Sovereign Citizen from external and internal threats all while defending, upholding and keeping within the parameters of the Constitution which includes, firstly, the Bill of Rights/the Sovereign’s philosophical limbs because it is ludicrous to envision any Sovereign as being denied those appendages which make him whole and allow him at the very least to engage his Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. (see: https://letthemfight.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-immutable-right-left-has-challenged.html)

Private Property Ownership:

Another Right that convinced the Founders to separate over was the concept of private property ownership. Up until that point, every bit of land was property of the Crown and no one was secure in their homes as the Crown could take their homes at will. Since that time we have crept rapidly back to that time before with the adoption of Eminent Domain, Property Taxes, Inheritance Taxes all for the benefit of the “collective” which are ways of saying; “You don’t own that – we do.”.

How this happened is exactly how the Israelites lost their autonomy, freedom and Individual Sovereignty, succumbing to base urges; fear, slothfulness, greed, jealousy, covetousness, lack of industriousness. They see others having something they want and spend their valuable, fleeting time trying to steal it under the guise of human rights or equitable redistribution.

Mamdani, Omar, AOC, Sanders, Pressly, Tlaib, Omar Fateh, Katie Wilson are not harbingers, they are inevitabilities in a United States Society which eagerly sold its collective soul in the name of inclusiveness and fairness preceded by the shaming of children into seeking the fast food style indoctrination disguised as universally necessary education complete with it’s wall-hanging participation trophy, the Parchment.

These Marxists weren’t miracled into office, they were eagerly sought after by three generations of people eager to make the Israelite’s deal with the Devil; swapping Sovereignty for the promise of a government hovel and three daily bowls of gruel. Mamdani was caught musing the elimination of private property ownership which Katie Wilson in Seattle also champions.

Mamdani, the Shiite, Twelver (in the image of the Iranian Mullahs), Marxist whose chosen religious sect and political ideology are in direct conflict with Constitutional philosophy was voted in by three Leftist, spoiled, self-interested, jealous, hate-filled generations; trained in Marxist infiltrated schools where equitable redistribution/theft is taught instead of mathematics and reading, divisive parsing of society into subsets rather than history, slothful entitlement rather than helping them discover their unique personal strengths, gifting and talents and how to nurture and exploit them for personal gain and societal benefit not to mention personal satisfaction, sense of accomplishment and completion.  

Sovereign Responsibility:

One of the very few truisms in the Marvel series comes from the Spiderman movies;  “with great power comes great responsibility”. We simply cannot separate our Divinely bestowed gift of Sovereignty from the responsibility of Delegation, Supervision, Stewardship, Training our children in the same, Willingness to defend it, Seeking our natural talents and those of our children and guiding them in that specific direction rather than abdicating in favor of those whose intent is indoctrination rather than education; to simply dictate to them what they should believe as opposed to fostering critical thinking, questioning, and independent decision-making skills.

Demanding unsupervised independence with a government supplied safety net isn't an expression of mature Sovereignty, it's the very definition of an irresponsible, petulant child; demanding autonomy and undivided attention while shirking all responsibility for themselves or the fallout from their decisions.

Whether or not we can find our way back to our Founding vision is uncertain. At the very least it will be painful and may well see a prelude of our own wilderness experience, filled with deprivation, hunger, sickness, heavy handed government and a bloody fight to regain what these generations and three generations of slothful parenting, Marxist insinuation in schools and a stewardship failure of the Sovereigns have wrought.

Semper Fidelis;

John Bernard