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"Three times in the past five months, carefully negotiated secret settlements had been ditched by the inscrutable Iranian mullahs, and the administration had been made to look more foolish each time."

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the histories of psychotic totalitarians such as Nazis and Islamists (not to mention commies) should have known that the US government led by Jimmy Carter was being played like a fiddle. The Mullahs were probably loving every minute of it, and gladly prolonging the crisis indefinitely...... DUH.......

3 posted on 04/20/2006 4:14:37 PM PDT by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")

The Russians did a much better job. Turn our people over in 48 hours or Tehran will be nuked. Worked very well.

The good side of Desert One was that it gave Charging Charlie a platform to build the current SpecOps community. Without D1 I am not sure we would be as good as we are at SpecOps.

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