I’m sorry to be mean-spirited about this, but my honest, frank, personal

opinion is that every one of the 1979 hostage-takers that could be

identified ought, by now, have been hunted down and killed. This should

have been a top priority for our intel and covert ops people.

The fact that this has not been done, with a quarter century to do it in,

suggests that we are not a very serious nation.

I am sure, at least, that that’s what it suggests to the Iranians, and the

rest of the Middle East