Back to Salamis?

The NY Times writer asserts that the current President has his foreign policy driven by the 1979 assault on the American Embassy in Tehran and the capture and abuse of the Americans there. However one should look back to 480 BC, 2,500 years ago and the Battle of Salamis. Not the first time the Persians tried to demolish Western democracies. There have been periodic battles of East and West well over the 2,500 year period. Thus focusing on 1979 may be just one of many.