American Essence

Freedom of choice defines America. We revolted against our then country, King George III’s Great Britain, in 1776 for the same reasons the English nobility had demanded that King John put his seal on the Magna Carta in 1215 at the plain of Runnymede. Life under a governmental system of rule by fiat was anathema to freedom of choice.

America is recognized throughout the world as the best example of a people who live free. Our Bill of Rights is a Bill of Choices: choice to speak, Due Process of Law, the right to practice any or no religion or to complain about the government (even if it is a government we have chosen). And, while we have often fallen short of our ideals and denied such rights to some of our own people and other peoples throughout the earth, our Volksgeist for 250 years has remained freedom for all. For example, President Trump has often and loudly proclaimed since the election of 2020 that American voters had their freedom of choosing their leaders stolen from them. Regime change by fraud, not choice, Trump claims.

Yet, when it comes to Iran, Zionist Israel and the United States have publicly celebrated regime change by murder; the ultimate denial of a country’s freedom to choose their own leaders. The despotic nature of Iran’s theocratic government does not exonerate our illegal aggression under the guise of removing the yolk from the necks of the Iranian people. This is especially true when our real purpose is to install the leaders we choose for them as we did when we gave them the Shah, then replaced the Shah and gave them the Ayatollah. Is it any wonder Iran sees America and Israel as the not to be trusted Great Satan instead of its savior? Could they believe we are more interested in controlling the Straits of Hormuz than the welfare of the Iranian people?

As to negotiations to end hostilities, President Trump has demanded unconditional surrender including the elimination of Iran’s sitting government along with 14 other provisions including control over the Straits of Hormuz, the only true defensive asset Iran has to Israel’s nuclear weapons and its overpowering military; both of which we helped establish. In June 2025 and again in February 2026, we led Iran to rely upon “negotiations” as we prepared to bomb them without notice. Both times President Trump gleefully pronounced we and Israel had killed Iran’s leaders and destroyed their ability to defend themselves. Israel has purposely led President Trump to assist it in attacking Iran when most Americans were adamantly opposed to this immoral and self-destructive course. Four-dollar fuel and innocent blood are already the result of Israel’s deception and our “Passionate Attachment”.

We should not attack Israel but we surely should open our eyes as to which country in the Middle East for the past 78 years has attacked virtually every country near it including: Qatar, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Palestine, Jordan, Syria and Iran. And we should cease enabling this constant aggression. America should adhere to its own ideals and not be used as a guarantor of Israel’s hegemony, revenge and genocide. Most importantly, we should at least be ashamed of our role in those countless sins of both omission and commission and afford to other countries the rights we so proudly proclaim for ourselves.

Both King John and King George III are gone. We should not anoint a new sovereign or approve of actions that violate our founding documents. We do not need to reprise the debacles of Viet Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. A true negotiation that fairly addresses the long-term needs and aspirations of every people involved is necessary to resolve the current conflict. Bluster and lies will only produce what all immoral words and actions always produce. And yes, it will be difficult, expensive and time consuming but on the other hand it already has been, so we might as well do it right.

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