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America Under Attack, by Jeffrey Lord – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

America Under Attack, by Jeffrey Lord

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New York City at night (Paulo Barcellos Jr./CC-BY-SA-2.0/Wikimedia Commons)

By Jeffrey Lord, The American Spectator, March 9, 2026

Jeffrey Lord, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is a former aide to Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp. An author and former CNN commentator, he writes from Pennsylvania at jlpa1@aol.com. His new book, Swamp Wars: Donald Trump and The New American Populism vs. The Old Order, is now out from Bombardier Books.

 

Jeffrey LordTime moves on.

And history gets forgotten.

But between the latest war from Iran in the Middle East and the arrest of two ISIS-supporting young people in New York who were plotting an attack on New York City “bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing,” it is crystal clear that America is under attack.

An attack that looms as a new 100-year war.

For those whose history recall is rusty, the first 100 Years’ War is recalled over here in Wikipedia as follows:

The Hundred Years’ War was a significant conflict in the Middle Ages. During the war, five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of France, then the wealthiest and most populous kingdom in Western Europe.

Today’s war, it appears unarguable now, is between radical Islam and America and the larger Western World. …