Israel planned and executed that rescue in about a week.
We spent six months planning the failed Tehran raid to free US hostages, and then failed (overly complex plan) when we did try to execute it.
And we somehow thought we could keep the plans secret from the rest of the world for six months (even though our forces were practicing in Egypt — which has its own security forces and ties to the former USSR).
I remember this clusterf**k well. I always find it funny when Jimmy Carter brags about how he didn't succumb to military action. What a jerk. Not only did he succumb but he failed big time and then quit.
Meanwhile H. Ross Perot got his people out
I remember an interview of Moshe Dayan sometime after the Entebbe raid (perhaps even after Desert One) He made a point of saying that the American mindset was totally different than that of the Israelis in hostage situations. According to him, Americans concentrate on trying to avoid any injuries at all to hostages whereas the Israelis go in with the mindset that everyone is ALREADY dead.