[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, I wouldn't put too much stock in his pronouncements considering that he was one of the architects of the Operation EAGLE CLAW/Desert One debacle...

[hawkaw]

Yeah that operation really worked out well .... /sarcasm off

[Jack Black]

Well, I wouldn't put too much stock in his pronouncements considering that he was one of the architects of the Operation EAGLE CLAW/Desert One debacle...

At most, as a National Security Associate or whatever he was he might have asked the military "can you rescue the hotages?". And if an operation was undertaken it was because the military agreed to do it. The failure of the mission was not that it was a bad idea, it was that our pilots screwed up and crashed their helicopters in the staging of it. Hard to blame that on some policy wonk in Washington.