Okay, that comes with a /sarc off from me. But if it happened today, wouldn't that be the exact reaction from Western Europe, Rev. Wright, US college campuses, and in some form, our own State Dept.?
In 1976, of course, no one at our liberal college campus had anything bad to say about the rescue. It was celebrated by liberal Dems and wide-eyed socialists alike. But the Left had not eaten as much of its own tail at that time. Leftism, being gnostic, has to keep moving its own ideological goal-posts unceasingly, lest anyone figure out that there are no principles at all to Leftism, only the compulsion to control one's followers.
In 1976, the Kampus Kommies still claimed to be "less anti-Semitic than thou." Now they are falling all over themselves to claim top honors for Jew-hating—not just Israel-bashing, but Jew-hating. And somehow, it's still in the name of justice and tolerance.
It’s amazing how many new things you learn about events like this, even years later. I never knew that two of the four original hijackers on the flight from Athens were actually Germans.