Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!oliveb!oliven!hawk From: hawk@oliven.UUCP (Rick) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Myths destroyed Message-ID: <771@oliven.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 17:27:51 EST Article-I.D.: oliven.771 Posted: Thu Dec 20 17:27:51 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 01:44:54 EST References: <646@ihopb.UUCP> <29200174@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: Symposium on Alchoholism Lines: 17 >> Jimmy Carter was even more impotent. The rotten Khomeni regime >> saved the lives of Americans and others. The world is not so >> black and white. Sorry. >> >> Maybe it's time to re-think the myths. >> -Andy Berman (berman@ihopb) >An attack against an embassy is an act of war. Retaliation against Iran >would have been in order under the circumstances. Carter sat on his hands >and did nothing. This can correctly be called impotence. Nothing but try to look peaceful while a rescue team was trained. How many people really thought that Carter would do anything of the sort? (Yes, the mission failed. Carter, however, wasn't a helicopter mechanic.) rick