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Many critics believed that Carter??s reinstatement of draft registration was a political move designed to publicly demonstrate his military strength in response to the Iran hostage crisis and the recent Russian invasion of Afghanistan...
Howard Zinn, a historian, social activist and author of A People’s History of the United States, questions Carter??s motives and credibility...
...context of Carter??s reinstatement of draft registration] suggests it was an attempt to show how tough he was and how he was preparing for military action against the revolutionaries who had taken over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and held 52 hostages,” he writes in an e-mail...
Zinn also co-led a demonstration in October 1980 that drew around 1,000 people to protest Carter??s foreign policy, specifically the possibility of a draft...
Scott A. Rosenberg ’81, who is also a Crimson editor, recalls that many on campus felt that Carter??s policies were unreasonable...