re: #593 jcm

You missed my: “The technical merits can be debated another time.”
SOOO…
Overall correct except for your last statement. Carter as POTUS authorized the mission, he accepted responsibility for its failure. He royally screwed it up with the micromanagement, though. Please remember that the Shah was dying of cancer and came to US for treatment, which outraged Iranians. Khomenei had planned for a while his return, and executed it when the time was ripe.
/”Let us learn from this history, so we do not repeat it”.