Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.):
The United States of Aggression: War With Iran Would Spell the End of the Republic
…if loyal foot soldiers, a vacuous media, and an indifferent Congress march along to war in Iran, Roman history would repeat itself – as the empire finally swallows the republic whole.
These warnings are always about the future. I remember years ago e-mailing acquaintances to ask their assessments of the state of democracy in America, and what measures they personally would use to determine if and when democracy were no more. I received two responses for perhaps 20 e-mails sent. That the US is not a functioning democracy is too much for most Americans to even conceive of, let alone respond to.