In 1945, the British were partitioning India and redrawing the maps in the middle east, the French were experiencing difficulty reestablishing their colony in Vietnam, the Chinese had almost unified their country, and the U. S. was presiding over the four-way split of Berlin; for all of which, I must take full responsibility and profusely apologize, since I was one year old in 1945, and was thoroughly briefed while having my nappies changed.
Finally, I also have little difficulty remembering the American man-in-the-street’s responses to the 1981 storming of the United States embassy in Iran, as not just a diplomatic affront, but as a de facto declaration of war. It immeasurably lowered Iran's international reputation and was the assumed reason why America began supplying weapons and Intel to Saddam Hussein on the Iran–Iraq War a year later.
