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How could they be scared of him at that point? He was just a movie actor as far as they knew. After the first four years they might have been scared, but not before. At least give credit where credit is due. Carter worked his butt off to get the hostages released, right up until his last minutes in office, on the way to Reagan's inauguration. Reagan reaped the benefit of Carter's work, in that case.



I didn't notice that two soldiers had gotten killed in the first post, until this morning. I have said all along to get our kids out of there, and let the idiots kill themselves. But, when I name that, like I did with Iraq, everybody said that we had to be in Iraq, because Saddamn was killing his own people. I think it's about time we quit worrying about that place over there, and let them take care of themselves.

If Carter was indeed working to get the hostages released right up the last few minutes before Reagan was inaugurated, he was most likely telling them Reagan would handle the situation completely different than he would. They released them so they would not have to "deal" with Reagan IMO. The only thing Reagan "reaped" from the Carter presidency was the abstract incompetency displayed in those four years.