The 1979 revolution in Iran was aimed at toppling the government that had been in power since the U.S. and U.K. toppled the elected Mossadegh government in 1953.
I have news for you, and you should be prepared for the political reality this will bring in the coming months and years: There are almost 200 million Americans who weren't even alive in 1979, and many of the 140+ million aren't even American born.
The Republican Party is doomed to fail if they go out and make their case for this stupid military campaign and end up sounding like some old fart who refuses to buy a Toyota because the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.
I don’t give a damn about what happened in 1953 with respect to this time in 2026, because the takeover in 1979 didn’t have a thing (apart from an item on their Islamic propagandistic grievance list. Their goals in 1979 were tyrannically religious in nature and the gain of personal power.
The United States didn’t take over their embassy. We didn’t kill their people, and we surely didn’t destroy their society the way the ruling mullahs did in the last 47 years...and they weren’t threatening us on a daily basis from 1953 to 2026 with death and destruction.
I care deeply about a country that on a daily basis for the last 47 years has routinely threatened people in several other countries with total destruction and death.
I am not one of those people, in the nuclear age, who chuckles and says “Oh, they don’t really mean that. That is only red meat for their masses” or some other such BS like that.
I don’t know when you were born, and frankly, I don’t care. I have had my differences with you on this forum before, and NOTHING I say here should be construed as an ad hominem attack on you, even if it is clear there are more things we disagree on than there are things we agree on.
If you don’t understand the 47 year old history of threats-AND NOT THREATS...ACTUAL MURDER AND DEATH-from Iran and its proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah of DEATH TO AMERICA and you are one of those who think “Oh, it’s just rhetoric, they’re just blowing off steam” then I can’t help you.
Navy Diver Robert Stethem was MURDERED in cold blood and his body dumped on the runway in Beirut. That’s Iran.
241 Marines murdered when their barracks was bombed in Beirut. That’s Iran.
Thousands of US Servicemen maimed and in car bombings and IED devices from Iran. That’s Iran.
All of that is Iran. And that doesn’t even take into account the 150,000 people killed in the Lebanese civil war and countless others in dozens of other countries.
I could care less for any statistics about who was and wasn’t alive in 1979 and how many of those are or are not American born, I view that as a shallow and specious argument. Note that I did not say YOU were shallow and specious. I said the argument about that is shallow and specious.
If I heard someone in our government make a statement such as the one you did about who in this country should “care” about an event in 1979 as irrelevant, I would be rightly outraged.
Also, you denigrated people a large number of people ou probably weren’t alive and fighting in 1945 against Imperial Japan, but I know plenty of veterans including my father who were, and I also know many Filipinos who were, and while admire any person who can embrace the Christian precept of forgiveness, I do not. begrudge them that disinclination to refuse to buy Japanese products even if I disagree with it, and I damn sure take exception to anyone characterizing them as “old farts” as you did. I knew an Army officer who was sent to Korea when WWII ended to oversee the task of repatriating Japanese military personnel back to Japan, and when I began discussing Japan he silently got up and left the room and didn’t come back. When I asked what was wrong, I was told by his friend in the execution of his duties, that he had up close and personal exposure to what the Japanese had done in Korea and could not even be present in any discussion of Japan. And that was fifty years after the end of the war.
I never judged him for that, and would never in a thousand years issue any kind of slur like that, and most definitely not to their face. I found your comments in that respect highly offensive, and were we face to face, I would be much more severe than I am trying not to be in an online forum.
And one more thing-You may think Pearl Harbor is past history, and irrelevant. If we wake up some morning to a smoldering pit of glass where Boston or New York once stood because we allowed those beasts to obtain functioning nuclear weapons and had no qualms about giving them to their martyrs to put in a containership, people who accept the mindset that Pearl Harbor is old, irrelevant history will be every inch as culpable as the Iranian Mullah who gave the approval to give those martyrs their nuclear weapon.
And If you don’t believe a Mullah would do that, then it is you who haven’t been paying attention.