IMMINENT
Japan—oil embargo, warships massing, code-breaking chatter. We saw it. nothing imminent.
Iran hostage crisis—students marching, embassy wires buzzing. We felt it. nothing imminent.
Beirut barracks—truck bombs tested, marines warned. We knew. nothing imminent.
‘93 World Trade Center—bombers renting vans, fertilizer bought. We had tips. nothing imminent.
USS Cole—Yemen harbor, small boats circling, al-Qaeda chatter. We watched. nothing imminent.
Iraq—Saddam gassing Kurds, invading neighbors, funding terror. We hit him. No WMDs? True. But his regime—his sons, his torture chambers, his terror network—gone. That stopped the next horror. The real failure? Thinking we could rebuild it into America. We couldn’t.
We ended Saddam. That mattered. Tried to build Iraq in our image. That didn’t.
But here’s the lesson: threaten us, hurt us—then we come back. Hard. And we do it again.
And for fifty years: Iran funds the hits, arms the proxies, chants “Death to America,” builds centrifuges—while we shrug.
Still: nothing imminent. Until the next body drops. Then it’s “urgent.”
WE WON’T FORGET. WE WON’T WAIT.
Grateful Immigrant 