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

Kohmeini might have been very short lived. Truly a missed opportunity. Iran could have been a free people.

Would have sent some CH-53's and C-130's into a sand storm.

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He actually tried to use the military to rescue the hostages, but it turned into a disaster.

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Everything that peanut farmer did in the White House was a frickin disaster. I know I was trying to make a living during that time.

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He wouldn’t have been a two termer and Reagan would have never been President

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He was not a two termer

Lol. There will never be a draft. Not sure why we even mess with the selective service still.

I'm not military and I don't know what our capabilities were at the time (like highly trained and equipped Navy Seals)but I don't remember there being a constant drum beat to go get them. I do remember Nightline was launched as a result and we got an update of the day's activities. It pretty much launched Ted Koppel beyond being just a reporter to an anchor. They would have the number of days held hostage on the screen almost constantly during the show. Carter was a Naval Academy grad but just didn't put people in positions to help him. It was an abomination of a presidency.

I had a friend, he’s dead now from skin cancer, that was in the marines at this time. He was on a ship as part of a MEU in the Persian Gulf. He told me that the word on his ship that they would see action shortly after Regan took office. They released the hostages on Inauguration Day so they never saw action.

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

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That was a tough situation. I don't know what was the right call. The huge mistake was not pulling all embassy staff out well before it escalated to that point. The signs were there, they ignored them. Once the embassy was overtaken it was too late. Of course they tried a rescue mission but that was clusterfrick from the get go that till this day I believe was no more than a publicity stunt. Not true attempt to rescue them.

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I had a friend, he’s dead now from skin cancer, that was in the marines at this time. He was on a ship as part of a MEU in the Persian Gulf. He told me that the word on his ship that they would see action shortly after Regan took office. They released the hostages on Inauguration Day so they never saw action.

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Carter gave the Iranians a shite load of money to release them. He was stupid because there was no way Iran was going to keep them when Regan took office. The old man had made it clear he wasn't going to put up with it. He would have turned that place into a piece of glass.