Posted on 04/02/2026 8:24:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“For Americans who came of age before the Iranian revolution, the defining event regarding Iran was the hostage crisis of 1979-1981, in which 52 of their countrymen were held prisoner for over a year at the captured U.S. Embassy in Tehran...”
“That crisis dominated news in the United States for an extended period. It even spawned a nightly television program (which became ABC Nightline)..."
American children who came of age in as late as the 1970s and early 80s will likely recall the Iran of their childhood as an infamous adversary, much in the same vein as the Soviet Union, so much so that the World Wrestling Federation’s top villain for a time was the Iranian-American “Iron Sheik...”
But for many born in later decades, "(they) are too young to have lived through news of that crisis and have not had the same perception-forming experience..."
Beyond growing up in the shadow of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, they are now in their 20’s and see how war could affect them personally. “Younger respondents are also more likely to be of fighting age, which could color their views of war..."
Beyond the formative experiences, how the different generations consume media matters too.
President Donald Trump is 79 years old. Vice President JD Vance is 41. Both men have been known to have different and even seemingly contradictory views on occasion regarding Iran, at least in the past.
They’re not alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at responsiblestatecraft.org ...
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.
Plenty of homeschooled and other-schooled young people a) voted for Trump b) speak more languages c) traveled more places d) eat Iranian food, and even grow pomegranates (an Iranian fruit) in their own backyard here at home. I’ve seen it. Because food growing, gardening, all that stuff is trendy with younger people than older who were raised on processed stuff.
And as for young Christians specifically: yeah they see right through the Hal Lindsey type Late Great Planet GRIFT.
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.
Which has nothing to do with my comment.
I once ran into an old Iranian guy who told me he ate green walnuts.
In college I met some Iranians/Persians who fled Iran when the shah was overthrown.
They hated the islamic oppressors and considered themselves Zoroastrians, not muslims.
It’s a pretty pathetic existence you live when all you’re consumed with is so much hatred that all you can ever do is post threads trying to pit people groups against each other.
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!”
Ah! I haven’t tried!
Figs are the other major fruit though. :)
YES! Exactly.
And hasn’t the country been “close to a nuke” for 47 YEARS also?
Don’t get me wrong, I am glad the Ayatollah is gone and for a complete regime change, renewal...but yeah.
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.
Many Boomers (and Jonesers) love history, as do their children. While there are good documentaries around from TV, books are still best. YouTube has good programs if one knows where to look.
We aren’t all ignorant boobs...
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!
Perhaps we in the States can start chanting “Death to Canada,” and randomly murdering Canadians the world over. But, don’t try to do anything about it, or discuss it, Canuck…..people may say you sound like a boomer. The day after each dead Canadian - it’ll be old news and just some boomer hang up.
Spot on. Believe the Islamists when they tell you who they are. This thread has the usual smokescreen appeasers.
Gen Z are clueless on just about everything relevant with the exception of the phone in their face which is the lease relevant thing in their lives.
They know nothing, can do nothing, care about only themselves, so who cares what they think of Iran?
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