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Aug. 9th, 2006 09:18 amThe other night I was watching "Guests of the Ayatollah" on one of the Discovery Channels. As the title might indicate, it was about the Iran Hostage Crisis. I was watching a late-night airing, so naturally I feel asleep before it was over, but what I watched was really interesting. It brought that time back for me and things that I'd forgotten. I fell asleep just as they were in the midst of the details of the rescue attempt.
It got me thinking. I wonder how things might be different now if that rescue operation had succeeded brilliantly instead of failing so miserably. Would Carter have won reelection? The race might at least have been a lot closer. Would the course of events in the Middle East and beyond, and our role in them, over the past 20+ years have run differently? Not that it really makes any difference or can be changed now, but the show really sparked some what if? questions in my mind.
It got me thinking. I wonder how things might be different now if that rescue operation had succeeded brilliantly instead of failing so miserably. Would Carter have won reelection? The race might at least have been a lot closer. Would the course of events in the Middle East and beyond, and our role in them, over the past 20+ years have run differently? Not that it really makes any difference or can be changed now, but the show really sparked some what if? questions in my mind.
