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Carter replenished the national credibility account?
by fit2rule 12y ago
Carter replenished the national credibility account?
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoNah, I just picked the most egregious ones as examples, skipping the ones that were lower profile. As I get older, I just see things repeating over and over; the young kids think we are reaching into new bads just because they are seeing it for the first time. Now get off my lawn.
- dredmorbius 12y agoHe's the only U.S. President in a long time to have no US troops deployed in combat, as I recall. Definitely since WWII, possibly WWI or earlier.
- arethuza 12y agoWell, there was Operation Eagle Claw to try and rescue the US hostages in Iran: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
- happyscrappy 12y agoCarter is the canonical example of why you cannot appear soft on foreign policy.
- arethuza 12y agoAlso the Missile Gap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missile_gap
- dredmorbius 12y agoNot deployed in combat (or at least didn't reach the stage of combat). The mission itself was a failure.