David Quinn
People react at the site of a residential building in Tehran, Iran, on March 27, 2026, that was damaged by a strike amid the
US-Israeli war with Iran. Photo: OSV News / Majid Asgaripour, West Asia News Agency via Reuters. As someone born in the 1960s, I grew up during the Cold War. One of my earliest, clearest current affairs memories was the fall of Saigon to North Vietnam in 1975 and the helicopters taking off from the roof of the American embassy. The whole country then became united under a communist government. In those…
