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How is he responsible for the hostage crisis?

• softcactus 4y ago
  He's not. People are still buying into 40 year-old propaganda against him.
  • ceejayoz 4y ago
    It remains baffling to me that Reagan gets credit for the end of the hostage crisis; the deal to free them was made by Carter's administration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Accords https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algiers_Accords
    • jacobolus 4y ago
      Furthermore, Ronald Reagan’s campaign probably conspired against the United States to delay the resolution of the crisis until after Reagan took office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_th... Not that dissimilar to 1968 when the Richard Nixon campaign conspired against the United States to prolong the war in Vietnam. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vi...
• cato_the_elder 4y ago
  How much he was responsible for it happening, it's debatable. But he certainly bears some responsibility for its protraction. Carter himself said: "I wish I had sent one more helicopter to get the hostages, and we would have rescued them, and I would have been reelected". [1] The hostage crisis isn't the only thing he handled poorly. He also failed the improve the ailing economic situation. [1]: LA Times: "Jimmy Carter has one very big regret. Most presidents are right there with him." https://archive.ph/Rmu3f https://archive.ph/Rmu3f