And about our people dying in the desert in a misguided, poorly planned rescue attempt?
Whether it was misguided or not is certainly debatable, but poorly planned? I would give the military a break on that.
They were planning an operation that was at the very extreme limit of projection capability we had at the time.
They had neither the capabilities nor the infrastructure at the time to do it well, and the military was given a $hit sandwich to eat...I think they did the best they could with what they had, and doing something like that which left no room for error, well...if it can go wrong it will, and did.
Just my opinion...