Comments on: TCS Daily – Twin Anniversaries (Reagan and Iran Hostages)

By: NoZe

NoZe — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 22:11:01 +0000

I agree, you have to give the Carter administration credit for this one. The hostage negotiations went on for over a year and ultimately cost Carter the election, but every one of the hostages came back alive, something that can't be said of the Reagan and Bush hostages.

By: Herb

Herb — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:14:38 +0000

And now, we are faced with the probability that this terrorists country, Iran, will have nuke weapons. They stuck it to us then and have been sticking it to us ever sinse. I don't think that Bush will put up with their BS like Carter did and I don't think we will have to long to wait until we bomb them back into the stone age that they want so much to live in. Thank God that Reagan was elected and rebuilt our military that Carter destroyed.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:29:46 +0000

This has to open the idea that Reagan was dealing with the enemy behind the Presidents back to influence the election.

James, can we get ad hominem on this guy? Please?

By: Below The Beltway

Below The Beltway — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:14:45 +0000

Another Reason To Celebrate

In addition to being the 25th anniversary of the release of the Iranian hostages, today is also the 25th anniversary of the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States. To deny that there is a connection between the two events ......

By: Below The Beltway

Below The Beltway — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:09:23 +0000

January 20, 1981

Twenty five years ago today, the Iranian hostage crisis came to an end and the 52 Americans who had been held hostage for 444 days returned home. Today's Washington Post tells the story of the many gifts that the returning hostages received from ......

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:53:01 +0000

The negotiations were handled by the Carter team. The Iranians released the hostages on Reagan's watch to poke a finger in the eye of the man who (initially) harbored the Shah. From Answers.com:

Shortly after the election, the lame duck Carter administration, with the assistance of intermediaries such as Algerian diplomat Abdulkarim Ghuraib, opened fruitful negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. In exchange for the unfreezing of 8 billion dollars worth of Iranian assets and immunity from lawsuits Iran might have faced, the hostages were to be freed. On January 20 1981, minutes after President Reagan's inauguration, the hostages were formally released into U.S. custody, having spent 444 days in captivity. The hostages were flown to Frankfurt am Main Air Force Base in West Germany, where former President Jimmy Carter, acting as an emissary for the Reagan administration, received them. After medical check-ups and debriefings they took a second flight to Washington, D.C., where they received a hero's welcome. For some, this only added to the nation's celebration of Reagan taking the presidency.

By: spencer

spencer — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 19:40:20 +0000

This has to open the idea that Reagan was dealing with the enemy behind the Presidents back to influence the election.

Do you consider that a high probability and if a Democrat had done the same thing would you call it traitorous?