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The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has gotten into the propaganda game in the United States, publishing an open, 26-page letter addressed to "the Honorable People of the United States of America." The letter quotes the Qur'an (which every time I see it has the apostrophe in a different place) and appeals to "the name of God, the All-Merciful, the Ever-Merciful." This is the same Allah, of course, that Islamists believe instructs them to carry out jihad against us non-believers.
The letter comes ahead of the midterm elections, where the party of Trump, the MAGA GOP, is fighting to retain control of both the House and Senate. The last time a sitting president's party gained seats during a midterm was under President George W. Bush in 2002, just a year after the United States had suffered the biggest terrorist attack on US soil. We had pretty much come together, we had coalesced under our leader. We knew fully that terrorists were bad and Americans were, well, not.
All that has now changed. In the 25 years since 9/11, our institutions and agencies have been remade to boast of an America in decline, to blame our own nation for terrorist attacks against her, and we've left ourselves open to propaganda from a nation that is the world's leading sponsor of terror. Like the war Trump brought to Iran, or don't like it, the nation's ruling class hates us, wants to see us eradicated, and is sized up by our government as an enemy, nuclear capability or no.
It's hard to look at this letter and not recall images of leaflets falling from the sky over Allied troops during World War 2 or to remember that just a few years ago, TikTokers became enthralled with an open letter penned to the West in The Guardian by 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. News outlets picked up the letter and ran with it as though its claims against us should be listened to and heeded.
Likely, its message will be listened to by the faction of socialists and Islamists who have teamed up to form the red and green alliance not only in the US but across the West. These unlikely bedfellows seek the same final solution: an end to the United States, to capitalism, to democracy, to Christianity, and our way of life. That's not hyperbole. Just listen to the messaging that comes out of these groups, not just when they think no one is listening, but front and center on their party platform websites.
"Americans need to wake up," the IRGC tells us. "Now is the time, as the American political system is at its weakest." This was a direct appeal to American voters from a nation that wishes us dead. Why would anyone listen to that? Under a section called "The Biggest Lie," the IRGC tells us that "the biggest lies that come out of the White House are about America itself." And goes on to detail what they believe are "all the false promises made by president after president." Is this who Americans need to be listening to for insight into their own nation and government?
Absolutely not. We can love Trump or hate him, love the war or hate it, love Israel or hate it, but absolutely nothing in our views should lead us to listen to the complaints against our nation by an avowed enemy nation who celebrates our weakness, rejoices in our mistakes, and wishes to see us, our parents, our children, and our culture wiped off the face of the earth. When we look to our enemies for guidance or insight, we seek our own destruction.
Libby