“perception-forming experience...”
Yes, being familiar with the facts puts Boomers at a disadvantage.
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Yeah, all this foreign affairs stuff is just about people’s hang-ups man, it ain’t real.
Say what? Hitler was before my time but it was not hard for me to understand what evil people do.
Additionally, they know the Saudis attacked us on 9/11 and they and the Gulf States helped big with ISIS.
And they look at our leaders slobbering over Saudi Leaders, they see the ISIS Leader (now Syrian “President”) hanging at the White House, shooting baskets on Obama’s Basketball court. They see Wesley Clark tenderly asking him at the UN if he’s getting enough sleep.
So they don’t get why Iran is worse.
It’s like asking a kid in 1945 to be mad about the SPanish American War.
Additionally, an aside, I know several young kids in the medical field. They have countless Iranian coworkers... to them -that- is what an Iranian is.
Different world.
NO!
It’s all about Shia Islam...
Every generation has to learn the age old lessons.
RE: the World Wrestling Federation’s top villain for a time was the Iranian-American “Iron Sheik...
Before I got to that line I had already discerned that this publication was not a peer reviewed university journal or Foreign Affairs.
From Face Nation. Oh, wait. From somewhere else....
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2XPzTlY7qzw
Too young to remember 9/11 ??
Give it time. They will.
Because they know so little and so much that is wrong.
President Carter was a fool.
The Shah of Iran, “Reza Shah Phalavi” trusted Carter. Carter betrayed him and thus started the return and accession of the Mullahs.
Then “students” captured our American Embassy in Tehran. They were not students and direct products of the new government of the Mullahs. In effect Iran had declared war on the United States.
This all could have been easily stopped by Carter. He did not have the balls to do it.
1. Select a target of a military base with little civilian population and drop a small nuke on it. Prior tell the people to get the hell out.
2. Inform Iran of all the next sequence of targets to be hit using low kiloton bombs thus with the least civilian causalities. Tell the people to get the hell out or die.
3. Inform them that the USA Embassy will be ground zero for a 10 megaton bomb in the next 4 days if the hostages are not released. It would have killed millions including our hostages.
Fear works if your enemy knows you will do it.
PS
I Live in Iran as a kid. It was good duty for us. It was modern and pro-western. What is sad about today is the vast majority are the same today but suffer from the insane Mullahs. I wish them no harm. I wish my childhood friend next door no harm. His name was Ali. I was most privileged as a kid to drink tea with him and his dad in their house and served crackers and caviar with the grown men in their tea room. I was very privileged to have this. At the time I did not know how privileged I was. In effect they were accepting me and of course Ali as it was his father’s house.
I miss those days of innocence.
That was in 1960. I am old now. I hope Ali is old now and not dead. His dad was an officer in the police. He WAS NOT SAVAK! He was just an honest police officer.
Ali was my dear friend at 12 years old. We were both innocents. I miss Ali. I hope he is just an old man at home with his family and alive as I am.
That’s because younger people have been lied to about history in the public indoctrination centers.
So knowing the insane Mullah regime in Iran is illegitimate, despotic and dangerous is a “hang up?”
I think that’s all we need to know about this publication.
Hangups? Not exactly how I’d characterize the attack on our embassy, holding hostages for 444 days or the bombing of the barracks in Beirut.
I just don’t feel that cavalier about those American lives. But I’m an old Boomer.
Khomeini is long dead. So is Ho Chi Min. There’s nobody to take revenge against.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. From my perspective, comments like “Iran has been at war with us for 47 years!” make a lot of Boomers sound like left-wing activists ranting about “Americans live on stolen land!”
OK, somethings are repetitive across time. War is one of them, but let's look at something else and then compare it to this example.
Every few decades there is another “sky is falling” panic that shapes humanity. Peak Oil, exponential population growth, Global Warming, a new ice age, industrial pollution poisoning us; are all recent examples fear. Don't get me started on the Covid panic. You can go back further to the teachings of Thomas Malthus and how population growth was going to create starvation, poverty and disease. You can even go farther back to biblical and pre-biblical myths across many cultures.
This is not a Gen Z problem and an antiwar problem.....it is part of the human existence, that requires wisdom and an understanding of the past to put the present into context.
Iran already said they were about to make 11 or 12 nuclear bombs. With their ally North Korea it wouldn’t have been long before they extended their missile range to ICBM caliber (North Korea already has them).
The ruling mullahocracy were fanatics that would not hesitate to start bombing their neighbors and the United States...47 years of “Death to America” ~ believe them.
So Gen Z were alright with that? It’s always wrong to generalize but can some of Gen Z be that unaware, stupid?
* All generalizations are wrong....including this one!