Word: rage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before his flight home, Carter stood at a small lectern at Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt. His face frozen in rage and his voice cracking, he declared: "The acts of barbarism that were perpetrated on our people by Iran can never be condoned. These criminal acts ought to be condemned by all law-loving, decent people of the world. It has been an abominable circumstance that will never be forgotten." He denounced the captors as "terrorists" who had committed a "despicable act of savagery." Still livid as he penned a report to the new President, while flying back across...
Lessons drawn from unique circumstances are usually wrong, but in the case of Iran the impulse to understand what has happened to the U.S. in the past 14½ months may offer the only way out of a blind rage. Blindness has been a metaphor throughout. The U.S. was blind not to see the extent and temper of the Iranian revolution against the Shah; blind fanatics seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran; the Ayatullah Khomeini's blind sense of vengeance sanctioned the seizure; and the hostages suffered their own blindness, held in solitary and the dark. All year long...
...time it was impossible to negotiate at all. The Iranians had what they wanted. They did not seek the moral approval of the world; they wanted only to see the U.S., the Shah's great friend, tied to the ground like Gulliver. The result was a standoff between rage and outrage, and both persist, the U.S. outrage now informed by tales of harassment of the hostages and by the uniformity of their bitterness...
Such crowing kept the Tehran street mobs in a state of agitation and brought the U.S. populace to a mood of rising rage. Carter expelled most of Iran's diplomats from the U.S. in December, and asked the U.N. Security Council to impose economic sanctions on Iran. At the same time, he began to erode Senator Edward Kennedy's supposedly unbeatable lead in the pre-primary-season polls. It was a bad time to be an Iranian student in the U.S. and a good time to be a seller of flags. The citizens of Hermitage...
...Rage of Angels, Sheldon...