Afghanistan’s Lesson: Reclaim America
Pedro Gonzalez
Our corrupt elites have stolen the valor of American heroes. Time to take it back.
On the day suicide bombers killed 13 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, 18 American veterans died by suicide...Our regime, in other words, is responsible for more deaths of more service members than any jihadist attack on American soil.
Is the United States worth dying for? The short answer is no; the long answer is yes.
The American people, and the tradition of self-government to which they still cling, remain valiant, admirable, and worth fighting for. But like the Roman veterans who labored under the depredations of their callous elites, Americans are now groaning beneath the heel of heedless, heartless rulers who value nothing so much as their own self-gratification. To reframe the original question: is the regime—the real, not ideal, established political order—worthy of Americans’ love and blood? Not today. But it should—and still could—be.
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