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President Donald Trump has been adamant for over a decade that Iran cannot be permitted to develop nuclear weapons. His reasoning is simple: the Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regularly leads his people in chanting some variation of “Death to America,” so nuclear weapons in the hands of such a people would thus pose at least a peripheral or potential threat to America. Consequently, Iranian nationals in America have been considered a possible threat.
During last week’s quasi-conflict with Iran, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested nearly a dozen Iranian nationals with Iranian terrorist affiliations. These were foreigners who crossed the border into the U.S. and now trod U.S. soil. One of those arrested, Linet Vartaniann, had even become a naturalized U.S. citizen, but was sheltering Mehrzad Asadi Eidivand, an Iranian national who was ordered deported in 2013 after threatening law enforcement officials. When ICE showed up to take Eidivand into custody, Vartaniann threatened to open fire on the federal agents and “shoot ICE officers in the head.”
America has had many “myths” over the nearly 250 years of her existence. Some are fables, like the mighty lumberjack Paul Bunyan, while some are larger-than-life figures who have entered the pantheon of legend: George Washington, Merriwether Lewis and William Clark, Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett, and countless others. But some myths are axioms or maxims that we tell ourselves about our nation’s history and identity. In ages past, we have generally relied upon principles which inspire and encourage us to root our nation’s future in our American heritage; but, over the past several decades in particular, new myths have been promulgated, even less grounded in reality than the tale of Paul Bunyan.
These new myths are lies, violent and antithetical to the old myths, which were a means of illuminating and passing on truth. The new myths teach not inspiration or…