Carter's bungling and sniveling panty-waist personality during the Iran hostage crisis says it all. Reagan would have started the B52's carpet bombing 1 mile away from Tehran and taken it 1/4 mile closer each day until the hostages were returned. It was an act of war and to not treat it as such is something the USA has yet to outlive.
BTW, the hostages were released immediately after Reagan was elected.
Carter just proved that he and Ted were both half wits, one was college educated,,,,guess