The Unasked Question: Why Iran, But Not Minneapolis?
The United States military just eliminated Iran’s Supreme Leader in a precision strike thousands of miles from American soil. Yet we cannot remove a Somali fraudster from Minneapolis.
That stark contradiction represents everything wrong with our current trajectory. And it demands an answer from those who claim to put America First.
The Broken Promise
Donald Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2016 with a singular, powerful message: America had become the world’s dumping ground. Foreign nations were laughing at our stupidity. Our leaders were getting played on the global stage while American citizens suffered.
He was right then. The question now is whether that principle still guides this administration.
When Trump opposed the Iraq War, he did so because he understood it would destabilize the Middle East without advancing American interests. He promised to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He called for a complete shutdown of Muslim immigration until we figured out “what is going on.”
That was America First. Clear, unambiguous, focused on protecting American citizens above all else.
A War Without Clarity
Fast forward to today. We’re now engaged in a full-scale conflict with Iran, and the justifications keep shifting like sand.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered the most damaging explanation yet: Israel was planning to strike Iran, which would have triggered Iranian retaliation against American forces. So we preemptively attacked Iran to protect our troops from retaliation for an Israeli operation we apparently couldn’t stop.
Read that again. We went to war because Israel forced our hand.
The administration tried walking it back. They claimed the comments were taken out of context. But these weren’t leaked recordings—these were official White House social media posts. The Secretary of State said what he said.
Speaker Mike Johnson reinforced the same narrative. Israel was ready to attack. Iran would retaliate against U.S. personnel. We had no choice.
This isn’t some fringe conspiracy theory. It’s coming directly from senior Republican leadership.
The Netanyahu Factor
Benjamin Netanyahu has spent decades manipulating American presidents. In 1996, he lectured Bill Clinton so aggressively that Clinton exploded at his aides: “Who the f— does he think he is? Who’s the f—ing superpower here?”
Netanyahu walked into the Oval Office on February 11th with one goal: keep America on the path to war. Behind closed doors, he’s domineering and condescending. In public, he’s calculating and strategic.
His interview with Sean Hannity—promoted by President Trump himself—came at the worst possible time. Hours after Rubio admitted Israel dragged us into war, the President told Americans to listen to Netanyahu explain why we’re fighting.
Netanyahu claimed Iran’s nuclear program was months away from becoming invincible. That contradicts the White House’s own statements from last summer declaring Iran’s nuclear capabilities “obliterated.”
It also contradicts Senator Ted Cruz, who stated on Face the Nation that he had “no indications they were anywhere close to getting nuclear weapons.”
The Intelligence Contradiction
The inconsistencies are glaring and inexcusable.
Netanyahu says Iran was months from invincibility. The White House said the program was obliterated. Cruz says they weren’t close. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff claims Iranian negotiators bragged about having material for eleven nuclear bombs.
Which is it?
If Iran had enough enriched uranium for eleven bombs, why didn’t President Trump mention this? Why didn’t Ted Cruz? Why didn’t the White House press secretary lead with this explosive fact?
We’re learning critical intelligence—if it’s even accurate—through off-hand comments in cable news interviews. That’s not how you build public support for war. That’s how you repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the Bush administration.
The Real National Security Threat
Here’s what we know with absolute certainty: While we’re fighting Iran thousands of miles away, our borders have been invaded by millions of hostile foreigners who despise America and everything it represents.
The numbers are staggering and indefensible.
In 1920, America had roughly 50,000 Muslims. By 2000, on the eve of 9/11, that number reached 2 million. Today, we’re approaching 4 million—a near doubling since the War on Terror began.
Most Muslims in America arrived after 9/11. Sixty percent are foreign-born. They’re younger and more fertile than the native population.
The Iranian-born population doubled between 1980 and 1990. We imported 150,000 Iraqi refugees post-2007. Another 150,000 Bangladeshis came through diversity lotteries. We took in 100,000 Afghans in 2021 alone. Hundreds of thousands of Somalis have settled here since 2000.
Somalis. The same people who dragged dead American soldiers through the streets of Mogadishu. The same people who engaged in piracy against U.S. vessels in the 21st century. We invited them in by the hundreds of thousands and showered them with taxpayer money.
The Fairfax County Horror
Abdul Jalloh entered the United States illegally from Sierra Leone in 2012. He had an ICE detainer. A judge ordered his removal. He racked up more than 40 arrests—including rape, assault, malicious wounding, drug possession, and weapons charges.
Fairfax County prosecutor Steve Descano, bankrolled by George Soros, dropped charges in almost every case. Descano explicitly campaigned on avoiding immigration consequences for illegal aliens.
Last week, Jalloh allegedly stabbed Stephanie Minter to death at a bus stop in broad daylight.
This is the trade-off we’re being asked to accept: We can eliminate the Supreme Leader of Iran, but we can’t deport a criminal alien with 40 arrests. We can capture Maduro, but we can’t remove Somali welfare fraudsters from Minneapolis.
We can strike targets in hardened bunkers thousands of miles away, but we can’t overcome a handful of activist judges issuing nationwide injunctions.
The Credibility Crisis
For months, we’ve been told mass deportations are impractical, expensive, politically unpopular, and risky. Deporting illegals without additional criminal records is especially problematic, apparently.
That was the excuse when Los Angeles burned. When ICE fled Minneapolis. When the administration backed down from workplace raids.
Fine. Maybe there’s some truth to those concerns.
But the war in Iran is also impractical, expensive, politically unpopular, and risky. If we can do something drastic and explosive thousands of miles from home, why can’t we do it here?
If we’re willing to risk American lives in the Middle East, why won’t we risk political capital to remove foreign criminals from American soil?
The Question Trump Must Answer
Mr. President, your base supported you because you promised to put America First. Not Israel first. Not the neoconservative donor class first. America.
We can debate the merits of the Iran operation. Reasonable people can disagree about strategic necessity and long-term objectives. You’re the Commander-in-Chief. That’s your call to make.
But if you’re going to reward the donor class and the pundit class—people who despised you, undermined you, and want you impeached—then you need to reward your America First base too.
Will you reinstate the Muslim ban? Resume workplace raids? Suspend legal immigration until we’ve deported the millions already here illegally?
Will you strip citizenship from paper Americans who refer to this country as “they” instead of “we”? From “Americans” who can’t speak English and show zero respect for our laws?
Will you finish the big, beautiful wall?
You captured Maduro. You eliminated the Ayatollah. Both impressive military achievements, regardless of the downstream consequences.
But can you finish what you started? Can you actually make America great again?
Because right now, it looks like we can project power anywhere on Earth—except within our own borders. We can eliminate foreign threats thousands of miles away, but we can’t remove them from our neighborhoods.
That’s not America First. That’s America Last.
And it needs to change. Now.
