So, yesterday I watched Argo on Amazon and I have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by the entire movie. It represented Americans, generally, and the CIA, in particular, very well. I’ll admit that I never knew much about that operation, but then I was in the 82d at the time and I was more focused on preparation for what we thought was inevitable at the time. But, Ben Affleck did do a very good job on the movie…until the end.<\/p>\n
While the end credits were running, Jimmy Carter chimed in, for some reason, and he said something to the effect of “in the end, our country maintained it’s dignity and without any violence”.<\/p>\n
Yeah, our dignity was shot in those days. We had a useless president who couldn’t make up his mind how to react and we sat like an impotent giant doing nothing. Until he finally decided to launch a military mission, after four years of starving the military of training time and resources. Equipment broke down, the lack of training took it’s toll and cost eight Americans their lives in that dusty landing zone in Iran.<\/p>\n
I had the misfortune of reading Carter’s memoir “Keeping Faith” for a paper I wrote in college on the Carter-Torrijos Treaty and it was nothing but a recitation of lies to rehabilitate Carter’s failed presidency. It seems he’s still engaged in that practice. His statement at the end of Argo sounds as if he feels triumphant about his role in the operation, but anyone who watches the movie can see for themselves that Carter called off the operation to help six Americans escape from Iran and the Affleck character (Tony Mendez) went ahead with his mission in spite of the Carter Administration’s doubts.<\/p>\n
Including the Carter quote in the movie was a slap in the face to anyone involved in the mission. To borrow from the best line in the movie; Jimmy Carter, Argo F*** Yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"