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Originally Posted by orla trees
An interesting viewpoint.
Now forgive me if my memory is fuzzy but wasn't the order to cancel the messed up operation made by your president at the request of his military commanders?
So are you saying that your president was so hawkish that he had difficulty cancelling the operation after the military had said it was somewhat screwed at Desert One?
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That's quite a strawman you've built new guy but sorry no, I am not saying that at all. Hawkishness is certainly not the only reason for someone needing to be prompted into action and if you are familiar with "my" president then you'd know what those reasons might be. Hint, they're the same reasons that the operation fell apart in the first place.
Edit: BTW if you or anyone else is interested in this subject I found a rather well written article from July of 1980 that gives a good account of the incident.
http://spectator.org/articles/34807/why-rescue-failed