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...made a patriotic myth out of Dunkirk, based on courage and exertion, but Dunkirk was still a staggering defeat. The overthrow of the Shah by Khomeini was a defeat for American foreign policy, heightened by our impotence during the hostage crisis. We are still in serious trouble in the Persian Gulf. That is what we have to remember...
...broke into Persian: "Believe me, it is in your interest for me not to come back." I suddenly remembered the snub-nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The immigration official would be my first target. I looked squarely at him and said: "I like this side better. I am sick and tired of what is happening in Iran, and of so-called officials who believe they have supreme power...
...ghosts haunting the attic of their past, the 52 American hostages continue to provoke shrill quarrels among their Iranian tormentors. Last week the circumstances of their negotiated release grew into the focal issue of the country's internal political struggle. Each of the opposing positions was riddled with Persian irony and paradox...
...crisis. When it ended last week, the Communists stepped up the propaganda barrage. Said the Soviet news agency TASS: "The settlement of the crisis in Iran will in no way affect the Pentagon's plans for a further buildup of the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf area." Intoned the Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap: "The U.S. secured the release of its diplomats by .resorting to economic and financial extortion." Said the Czechoslovak news agency Ceteka: "Washington should learn the lesson that U.S. imaginings about its being the leading power in the world are just that: imaginings...
...more to the point. The U.S. could threaten force against North Korea because it had no fear of driving the North Koreans into the arms of the Soviet Union. With Iran that fear was, and is, a fundamental consideration, as was the even larger danger of igniting the entire Persian Gulf and throttling the West's essential oil supply. Also, the Pueblo crew was in fact spying, and they were doing so against a country with which the U.S. had no diplomatic relations. Beyond that, Kim II Sung's regime, while hardly a dream government...