Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear
During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.
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During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances. Back then, a time when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn’t strike Iran and a long-shot rescue operation ended in abject failure. Now, with the US military at its most proficient and professional in history, we have inflicted punishing blows against the regime but still haven’t been able to impose our will, in part because we are running low on the munitions necessary to prosecute the war.
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- During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances.
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Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear
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