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BullDawg said

And your analysis of our situation with Iran is any better? We've been in a proxy war with Iran since the late 70's. Does that in itself justify their involvement? We toppled what Iran once saw as the two greatest threats to their own national security. If anything, we did them a favor. And they know we aren't going to invade them with the current troops levels in either Iraq or Afghanistan. So the argument that they are only taking defensive measures is lacking.

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That I guess is where we differ.

I would argue that there are a lot of people in Iran who believe -- and who act in accordiance with the belief that -- the proxy war started in 1953 when a secular nationalist Iranian government was overthrown and a bloody despot put in its place at the behest of Western oil interests.

But I understand that reflexively we must adjust the timeline of *** for tat to our own favor. Unfortunately doing so does not allow us to fully understand our own history.