On War #3: Persians are not Arabs. Just ask Cyrus the Great, whose pre-Christian empire stretched to the Mediterranean. The misconception makes a mockery of complaints by Saudi Arabia and the Emirates (by now American sycophants) that Iran is behaving unfairly by targeting their lands and closing the vital oil corridor known as the Strait of Hormuz. Any Arab with a sense of history could have seen this coming. The Islamic regime existed for 50 years until the United States and Israel entered into an illegal and unprovoked war, though the concept of international legality is by now long-gone. For that same half-century, post-Revolution Iran made it no secret that it disliked the presence of American bases so near its soil, something a Saudi Arab named Osama bin Laden also detested and created Al Qaeda as a response. The bad blood in the region is notorious and noxious, something a trigger-happy American ruler and his Israeli ally should have taken into account before kicking up a maelstrom that will take decades to repair.