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Iran War Commentary and Notes
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“Truth Is the First Casualty of War”
On Truth and War
The origin of the quote, “Truth is the first casualty of war” is controversial. It is sometimes attributed in form to the Greek philosopher Aeschylus (c. 524-456 BC) but that cannot be documented. Aeschylus is documented to have said, “God is not averse to deceit in a just cause.” In 1950, columnist Malcolm W. Bingay gave caution to this: “Aeschylus said that ‘God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.’ It takes very mild mental gymnastics to make any politician or statesman or soldier believe that his cause is holy and therefore proper to lie about.”
Political and Economic Impact of Attack on Iran
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March 1, 2026, Comments
On Saturday morning, February 28, Israel and the United States launched a massive bombing and missile attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran. This occurred while negotiations between the United States and Iran were still ongoing, and Iran had just agreed to a major concession that it would not enrich or stockpile uranium. Iran had already stated that it would never develop nuclear weapons. In fact, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei issued a religious Fatwa prohibiting nuclear weapons in October 2003. Iran, however, refused U.S. negotiators demand to eliminate its missile arsenal, its principal defense against Israeli and American attack. There were no offers to reduce financial or economic sanctions on Iran in exchange. This American and Israeli demand was one no country that valued its sovereignty, national security, and independence would agree to short of utter military defeat. It is obvious that the real issue to the United States and Israel was Regime Change. Supreme Iranian Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had to go and his government replaced by one friendly to and subject to the influence of the United States.
High Risk of Catastrophic War
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Seven Important Videos from the Last 48 Hours
These videos are from 15 minutes to 80 minutes long. Why am I sending them—because we really are seriously dangerous times, and the mainstream media is not giving the American people an accurate or complete enough understanding of the situation. Their coverage is, in fact, minimal. A substantial majority of the mainstream media seem to be presenting an orchestrated propaganda campaign. This includes those with both conservative and liberal reputations. Many media agents seem to have an appallingly shallow knowledge of the background and history of the situations and are unaware that they as well as the public are being propagandized to facilitate highly questionable political agendas and war.
Immigration Enforcement
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Facing an Existential Threat to American Survival
First of all, as to the shooting deaths of protestors in Minneapolis by ICE agents, I do not wish to dwell upon the unfortunate details, although I agree they were indeed unfortunate. However, being a combat veteran myself, although not involved in close-quarter personal combat, I am familiar with the difficulties of high levels of adrenaline, stress, and urgency in combat situations. I have retired Army and Marine officer friends who experienced more urgent combat stresses at close-quarter. This is often the very hard but unavoidable part of dedicated and honorable soldiering and law enforcement. However, in enforcing immigration laws and enforcing law in general, these unfortunate incidents will happen. They should never happen by intention, but reasonable and economic actions to reduce such incidents should have constant attention.
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Secession, Tariffs, Sectionalism, Southern Rights, Slavery, Truth, Defeated Valor
One of my favorite quotes revealing the real causes of Southern secessions from the United States, beginning with South Carolina on December 20, 1860, and leading to six other secessions and Confederate artillery batteries in Charleston bombarding Union held Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, is an early November editorial in the Charleston Mercury. On November 4, 1860, just two days before Lincoln’s election in November 6, the Charleston Mercury summed up the feeling of South Carolina on the impending national crisis:
“The real causes of dissatisfaction in the South with the North, are in the unjust taxation and expenditure of the taxes by the Government of the United States, and in the revolution the North has effected in this government, from a confederated republic to a national sectional despotism.”
Mike Scruggs is the author of two books: The Un-Civil War: Shattering the Historical Myths; and Lessons from the Vietnam War: Truths the Media Never Told You, and over 600 articles on military history, national security, intelligent design, genealogical genetics, immigration, current political affairs, Islam, and the Middle East.
He holds a BS degree from the University of Georgia and an MBA from Stanford University. A former USAF intelligence officer and Air Commando, he is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam War, and holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart, and Air Medal. He is a retired First Vice President for a major national financial services firm and former Chairman of the Board of a classical Christian school.
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