I know its bad when I can point to Jimmy Carter and his administration as having been the best president and administration from the dominant political party in this country during my lifetime.

It was the streetcorner executions on video that got him to flip against Somoza and authorize his assassination. For all of what is said about him being a wimp in the Middle East, he did authorize Delta Force to go in and storm the US Embassy and unleash some serious retribution on Iran.

The original plan for that, which he authorized, was for AC130 gunships to clear the streets of Tehran while the rescue convoy was taking liberated US Embassy personnel to the airport.

You realize had that succeeded, he would have been considered a butcher, but it was the military in the 1970s fuckup era that bungled the operation.