re: If Jimmy Carter would have met Force with Force when our Embassy was taken?

To be fair, and don’t get me wrong, Jimmy Carter was the 2nd most FAILED President behind Hussein, but in the late ‘70’s the U.S. military was no where near as poised or capable of deploying and projecting power and thinking so quickly as it is now.

The U.S. was trying to just hold serve in West Germany and lead NATO back then, and be able to ship assets to Europe in the event of a hypothetical Warsaw Pact (Soviet) attack.

We were also just holding serve in Korea as well. The military of the mid to late ‘70’s was not the same quality it is today, on so many levels.

Carter was also weak on foreign policy/national security, and the disarray and quality of our military post Vietnam did not start getting way better until the mid ‘80’s under Reagan.

The “To be fair” part of my post is that Carter didn’t have a ton of non-risky options then to meet force with force.