Typical of Democrats, Carter started a military action to free the hostages in Iran. When it started having problems, and soldiers killed, Carter withdrew in disgrace. Carter was trying to micromanage the rescue mission, and Reagan would have let the military do it since they knew how to accomplish it. However, the failed rescue or the botched boycott of the Olympics were just more of the same legacy we have come to expect with Carter and Democrat leadership. Even with double digit inflation, double digit unemployment and double digit interest rates, Carter thought everything was going along just fine. To this day, Democrats revere Jimmy Carter as one of their party heroes, which is why most of us laugh when his name is mentioned.
Carter had nothing to do with micromanaging the mission, I wish people would stop saying that.
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