You have echoed my thoughts.
At the time I called for carpet bombing Tehran in sections until they gave up the hostages. Nothing in the last 30+ years has given me reason to think I was wrong.
My plan at the time was to publish a list of cities and the scheduled times for their destruction. 8:00 am, Tehran, 9:00 am, somewhere else, right down the line till there was not one brick left on another anywhere in the country.
I was in college then and we used to team up and go in carloads to the Iranian Embassy and drive around shouting slurs at them.