Reply #37: Well, for starters, I sure as hell wouldn't have taken fifty-two innocent people

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hostage because they represented a government I disagreed with! I would've taken both my anger and my argument to the Iranian government. The struggle and the deposition of the sitting monarchy should come from within. Those students should've treated the U.S. Embassy employees they same way they treated every foreign embassy who also supported Pahlavi: Give them time to get the hell out of the country. The U.S. Embassy was the only embassy to be overrun. Why?

I distinctly remember Iranian college students on U.S. student visas matriculating at D.C.-area colleges marching down K Street denouncing this country. Believe me, the people standing on the sidelines jeering at them weren't feeling the same love for them that you do.

God knows, they certainly don't at the State Department.