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Otherwise you open that slippery slope to everything from asinine reparations to descendants of black American slaves to Mexico demanding we return the Southwestern United States to them, and the infinite variations that exist throughout all history in every land around the globe occupied by humans.

Not at all.

If we weren't engaged in violence against Iran, none of what took place in either 1953 or 1979 would matter to me or anyone else.

But we are engaged in violence against Iran, and we are engaged in violence against Iran on the flimsiest of pretenses, none of which hold up to any scrutiny.

The argument, here and elsewhere, seems to boil down to the number of Americans who were apparently killed by Iran by "proxy"; this argument relies on an awful amount of either stupidity or willful ignorance to have any merit. We're asked to believe that Iran woke up one day and decided it would be a good idea to support terrorists who acted against American military personnel and interests. (They just woke up one day and decided it would be a good thing to do.)

So we're left with either starting the US-Iran calendar in 1979 to ensure Americans don't learn the background of the story, or to acknowledge the background of the story and hope that Americans jump on the bandwagon nonetheless because (cue Elmo voice), "'Murica special!".

Thanks, but I'll put myself in the America First camp with that first America Firster, George Washington.