I wonder why ronpaul never brings that up in his tearful pleading for understanding of poor wittle Iran?
They started a war then but we were in no way suppose to respond or consider them a threat.
They have been ranting for 30 years how they are going to kill us but that was only because we were going to build bases 20 years in the future. Apparently they have crystal balls.
History began before yesterday.
Of course all those bases have been built since 1979 when Iran decided to hold our embassy staff prisoner. . .History began before yesterday.
To be fair though you seem to be forgetting the entire TPAJAX Project in 1953 in which the United States CIA, along with the Brits, orchestrated the overthrow of the democratically elected PM Mosaddeq and gave all power over to the Shah. The Iranian people resented this to no end and it was probably the primary cause of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in which Shah was also overthrown and the Ayatollahs were put into power. It is hard to be surprised at the reaction of the Iranians to our people in their country after we actively overturned their elected leaders and supported a man they saw as a tyrant for twenty years. I don't excuse the lunatics in Iran today, but at the same time, as you say, history began before yesterday.