The U.S. must not let down its guard during the triumphant afterglow of its flawlessly executed bombing of Iran’s three key nuclear weaponization facilities, warns Dan McCarthy in Jewish World Review. The loose border policies of the Obama and Biden administrations allowed thousands of unvetted Iranians to enter the U.S. illegally, including an unknown number of “sleeper” agents who even now may be plotting assassinations, terrorism and other mayhem.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
