Word: blunderers
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...issue is not one of technique; this was not merely a "mistake," a "blunder," a "screw-up." The use of military force was unjustified and wrong. It was wrong because President Carter acted as he has always acted, with an ear to the polls and feeling the sting of a defeat in the Pennsylvania primary. It was wrong because eight American soldiers died in an unnecessary military action. It was wrong because it was conducted in complete secrecy, in defiance of the spirit of a democratic society, as embodied in the War Powers...
...final stand. According to Viorst, it was the test of how revolutionary the left was, and how far they would go. But "few were ready to die, so the decade reached its end." Viorst says that by this time, the country had reached agreement that America had blundered in entering the war. But the animus of the Movement, vibrant in all of Viorst's heroes, was not the nemesis of one war, of one minority--it was the nemesis of an entire machine, the ideals and values of America which caused the country to blunder into war, oppress peoples...
...worst blunder, of course, was Carter's public repudiation of a U.S. vote in the United Nations Security Council, which had supported a resolution demanding that Israel dismantle its settlements in the occupied territories, "including Jerusalem." The vote and its disavowal, which managed to outrage both the Israelis and the Arabs, and to baffle and dismay U.S. allies, was blamed on "a failure to communicate." That was hard to believe, and many did not believe it. But if true, it was a remarkable example of official incompetence...
...which at the outset had no visible leaders. But even in exile the Ayatullah was well known inside Iran for his uncompromising insistence that the Shah must go. When demonstrators began waving the Ayatullah's picture, the frightened Shah pressured Iraq to boot Khomeini out. It was a fatal blunder; in October 1978 the Ayatullah settled in Neauphle-le-Château, outside Paris, where he gathered a circle of exiles and for the first time publicized his views through the Western press...
public opinion around the country last week found Americans almost unanimously against handing over the Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first place, even for medical treatment. Above all, there is frustration and anger. Willard Hedrick, owner of a construction company...