Let’s go back a few years to Jimmy Carter and the take-down of the Shah of Iran (because 1200 were “tortured” in some prison…). The Shah was then replaced by Ayatollah Sayyed Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini who was in exile in France for being a radical but who was still able to manage the overthrow of the Shah. Some inspired students in Iran, with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ushering one of the hostages, took over the American Embassy in a much greater moment in Time than scaling the walls of our Embassy in Cairo, and we find Americans kept prisoner in Iran until Carter was replaced by Ronald Reagan. The hostages were freed in a few hours of Ronald Reagan’s winning the presidential election because, apparently, those moronic students that dominated the news from Iran felt the tingle of fear run up their legs to imagine that Cowboy Reagan would correct their faulty judgment in the hostage-taking. They had no fear of Grinning Carter, his Desert Adventure, etc., but within hours of a President Reagan, they suddenly (out of kindness?) released the hostages.
