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Originally Posted by patteeu
Reading about the Entebbe raid makes me wonder what impact it would have had on the course of US history if Carter's attempt to rescue the Iranian hostages had been equally successful. Would Carter have won re-election? Would Reagan have ever been president? Carter still had the economic malaise to overcome, but the lingering hostage crisis really pulverized his image.
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Yes, hard to say. The economic situation was so incredibly bad I'm not sure that even a successful rescue hostage mission would have saved him.
The failed rescue mission wasn't really his fault, but it certainly killed any chance he might have had at reelection.
The only good thing about the entire disaster is that it led to some internal revisions and significant improvements in special forces operations capabilities.