In 1979, the seizure of the Embassy of the United States in Tehran the start of Iran’s perceived war on America.

In 2026, we finally noticed.

I am a libertarian minarchist. I believe that the government should be as small as possible—but as you may note from that statement, it implies that there is some sort of government. Ideally, one that—among a very limited set of duties—exercises military capabilities in the protection of the country.

And for a long, long time it has been abundantly clear to a...