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Originally Posted by Heywood Jablome
This war started in 1979 when President Carter put the exiled Shah of Iran under US protection. The Ayatollah Khomeni then took the US Embassy workers in Iran hostage. He released them on the day of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.
Reagan retaliated by arming Saddam Hussein, who was then at war with Iran. That got the Soviets involved and they armed the Iranian army. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan we got involved by backing Afghanistan (and Bin Laden). and on and on
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If you take the date as being in the 20th Century then there's no absolute date when the war began. But don't make the error that it is anyone's fault other than Islam's. It's Islam which is entirely at fault in this war.