Dear Mr. President:

Why should you listen to me?  Because I am an independent.  I will likely vote for neither a Republican nor a Democrat in November.  You can trust me because I will be straight with you. I have no allegiance to any political party—only to the truth and what is best for my country.  Not someone else’s.

So here it is, Mr. President:  All empires end.  Including ours. 

And what you are engaging in is accelerating that inevitable conclusion. 

If I may be frank, Sir, you are being played. (Stiffen up for this next part, Mr. President, as this might sting a bit.) You are being manipulated by the same crowd that conned your two predecessors in the White House.  You know, the two whom you—correctly—criticized on the campaign trail for their reckless foreign policies.

Sir, sadly the “swamp” you promised to drain never had the plug pulled.  You are being deceived by Neocons all around you—the same bunch who tricked the two previous WH occupants into illegally invading a litany of foreign countries in the Middle East.  This group of liars and thieves will not stop until they get their king fish. The big prize. 

Iran. 

It’s what all of the stepping-stone wars since 9/11 have been about. And you, Sir, are on the brink of handing it over to them.

Mr. President, please don’t think I’m making this up.  Instead, I encourage you to follow the lead of Socrates and discover the truth for yourself.  Read what these Neocons wrote before they deceived us into offering up our precious blood and treasure after 9/11.  Are you familiar with the “Project for a New American Century (PNAC)”?  How about “A Clean Break”?  Are you aware of the Office of Special Plans (OSP) in Bush’s Pentagon, populated by dual citizens, who successfully lied us into the War on Iraq?

As a teacher, I am respectfully assigning those documents listed above as your homework, to be completed before you direct another killing in the Middle East.  Sir, upon completion of your reading assignment, you will be faced with an obvious contradiction.  You promised your voters you would place “America First.”  Do you remember that?  The blueprint set forth by the Neocon architects of chaos does not put America first.  In fact, there’s very little discussion, if any, about what AMERICA will get out of this plan for endless, regime-change wars in the Middle East.

Sir, you’ve already done more for these partisan Neocons than they could have imagined.  You’ve moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and you’ve given them your blessing on taking the Golan Heights.  But they won’t stop whispering in your ear until you give them their war with Iran.  Are you aware that virtually no one in the world wants a war with Iran—except for these psychopaths and their powerful lobby, AIPAC?  (Plus, of course, the usual suspects in the war profiteering business.)

Mr. President, respectfully, you are suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Your abusers (and ours) are all around you. You can identify them not by a political party, but by their insatiable lust for war. You needn’t go overseas looking for enemies to slay, Sir; they are right inside your house. And they must be flushed. You booted Bolton. Time to root out the rest.

President Bush pried open the gates of hell in the Middle East while waving an American flag.  President Obama held the gates open while hiding behind a Nobel Peace Prize. You, Sir, with a full-scale war on Iran, would burn down the gates and set the world on fire, while tearing off the mask of Empire.  And that’s a dose of Red Pill no one is prepared to handle.

Sir, you may now wake up and–for your first time–enter the real world.