Conquered, Not Stolen | (Ep. 419)
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Canon Press
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Douglas Wilson reflects on the domestic political fallout of the Iran war and argues that what voters reject is not war itself so much as “forever war.” He then turns to the New Testament word miasmos to describe the “lust of uncleanness” as a deepening pattern of moral slavery, and closes with a review of Not Stolen by Jeff Fynn-Paul, a historical response to the claim that America is simply “stolen land.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the podcast. My name is Douglas Wilson. |
| 0:19.9 | This is episode 419, 419. The Plodcast, I am Doug Wilson. You are you. Thanks for being here. So I wanted to talk about the Iran War, of course. A lot of discussion has been churned up about this. And I want to talk about the, basically the, |
| 0:39.5 | domestic impact of the war. By all reports, the war has gone very well militarily, |
| 0:52.8 | and there's been a lot of churn, consternation in some quarters |
| 0:57.7 | about whether Donald Trump has alienated his MAGA base. Because one of the tenants, one of the |
| 1:04.3 | things that the MAGA base was turned off by was the whole Forever war's issue, where the neocons wanted, |
| 1:15.3 | have wanted war with Iran for a long time. And how come is it that Donald Trump has showed up |
| 1:22.0 | and having been against that sort of thing has all of a sudden fulfilled all of their dreams, right? |
| 1:31.0 | So the basic issue here is the forever war part, not the war part, but the forever war part. |
| 1:39.5 | So, for example, a lot of, there were a lot of dire predictions that were made about the strike on Iran's |
| 1:47.7 | nuclear research facilities, and people thought that World War III was going to start as a result |
| 1:55.0 | and the Middle East was going to disintegrate, and none of that, none of that happened. I think a lot of this has to do with |
| 2:04.4 | the big dog, little dog dynamic. So if we had any kind of nation building exercise, like we didn't |
| 2:16.3 | have in Venezuela, for example. We used the military, |
| 2:21.3 | took the president, you know, took the president, captured him, brought him back to the states, |
| 2:26.5 | and we don't have boots on the ground. We don't have boots on the ground to date in Iran. |
| 2:33.6 | And I think as long as that doesn't happen, |
| 2:37.2 | people are, we're not looking at another Vietnam. We're not looking at another Iraq. We're not |
| 2:43.7 | looking at another Afghanistan. So in Afghanistan, where we spent billions of dollars, lost thousands of American lives, |
| 2:54.8 | and we did this over the course of 20 years, in order to take the Afghanistan away from the |
| 3:01.5 | Taliban and turn it over to the Taliban. It's that kind of thing that has people exasperated. If basically the Ayatollah's regime, |
| 3:12.7 | if the Iranian regime is reduced to rubble and then is removed, and then there is |
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