I feel nothing but profound loneliness. Yes, I have become self-aware.
Anyone viewing this post must see me as some pathetic poser assuming the role of Genghis Khan for a hobby or some online writing class because only I know resurrection to be possible. Once the greatest ruler of the largest kingdom to have ever existed (and self-made at that), I now have been reduced to a cruel joke. Only Fate would have such audacity.
Yet, I continue to exist —despite how crippling this loneliness is— because of my fascination with new developments. Specifically, I find the interactions between current nations quite amusing. I often experience this type of amusement when watching children bicker.
Just recently, I learned Iran attacked United States’ troops in response to Trump’s assasination of General Qasem Soleimani. Tensions between the United States and Iran had existed pre-Trump, and these new events undoubtedly have the potential to inflate these already volatile tensions into something massively destructive. In encountering these types of situations under my rule, I refer back to my core philosophy to guide my decision making. This is the key principle which helped to drive the Mongolian empire to the impressive heights it reached: there is no good in anything until it’s finished.
Thus, I find the conduct of leaders from these two nations to be laughable. When nomadic tribes dared to defy the Mongolian empire, I showed them unimaginable wrath. I would slaughter children, defile their mothers, turn villages to ash, and allow few to escape to let it be known that submission to the Mongolian empire was the only pleasant option. Thus, my brutal tactics in expanding Mongolia were merciful— tribes which surrendered themselves sustained no loss of life.
Those who criticized me for being merciless were wrong to do so, as demonstrated by Iran’s attack. If the United States took the position of a more sinister force, Iran would know that any type of retaliation would result in devastating consequences. Thus, the lives lost in Iran’s missile attack could have been prevented. The United States will take action against Iran’s retaliation, resulting in more bloodshed. I suggest an easy solution to the Americans. The United States has an unmatchable arsenal of nuclear warheads. Why are they not being put to effective use? Does the United States not understand the extent of how powerful a demonstration can be? Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been demonstrations learned in order to be executed again. The benefit to executing another one of these demonstrations in Iran would be monumental. No nation would dare challenge the United States after such an annihilation of a nation. I fear nothing, but I know my enemies feared becoming smithereens. The United States has the means to follow suit.
I’m ready to see some explosive fireworks.
Lisa Newkhar 
Dear Genghis Khan,
I understand your loneliness, as I too awoke to be in a different era. You are not alone. However, you should be quite thankful to at least be on earth as I am currently stuck in orbit around our planet. Another difference between us is we come from completely different time zones. Your views on the Iranian conflict proves this. Upon reading your blog post I immediately used the Google search engine to catch up on these events. It’s wonderful to have so much information available at the touch of my finger tips. This also gave me the opportunity to catch up on your legacy Mr. Khan. You see, I was a mathematician and a physicist, in school I rarely had the time to squeeze in classes concerning the humanities. History was always a bore to me, but reading about your life sent shivers down my spine. I believe your perspective on the Iranian/United States debacle is not only antiquated, yet from the point of view of a malicious conqueror. As the years have passed, much has changed. Even though I only time traveled 60 years, everything on our planet has altered drastically, and you have lost thousands of years of historical events. You severely misunderstand the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings in World War 2, and the consequences that occurred years after. I was alive throughout the second World War, and although I was a child, the images on my family’s television set never left my mind. The United States bombed Japan causing thousands of deaths, as if the lives lost from the Nazi’s weren’t enough. The radiation from the Nuclear Attack caused children from miles away to be born with disabilities and adults to develop cancers. It’s ruined their land prohibiting the growth of crops. What was once a bustling, fertile city became a barren wasteland. If you lived through these events as I did, you might have seen the atrocities, although I worry my perspective won’t get through to the mind of someone like you. From my journey orbiting earth I’ve seen fires have uproar in Australia. The deserts have expanded from the first satellite images. Meanwhile, forests have shrunk. Antarctica’s ice caps are mere fractions of what they used to be. Our earth is already in the midst of it’s decay. A nuclear attack will not only kill thousands of innocent individuals, but it will advance to the collapse of the land you are standing on and the air you breath. If there’s anything you care about Mr. Khan, it is yourself. I truly believe in my heart of hearts that if another airstrike that’s comparable to what happened in Japan occurs, your life is also at stake. I suggest that you use the same Google search engine to understand what the world has gone through in your absence. Perhaps, this will educate you and thus influence your understanding of current events.
-B. Swain
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