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A bold decision in Iran
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Editor: The war with Iran, 1979, has been going on for a long time. It’s about time to finish it. In 1979, I was stationed at Fort Bragg when the Iranian fanatics overthrew the Shah and attacked the U.S. embassy for the first time, wounding a U.S. Marine, then kidnapping him from a local hospital. From that point on, my life was one of being tethered on alert. Then on November 2 of that year, the embassy was taken by the same fanatics, holding U.S. citizens hostage for 444 days, humiliating our country. From that point forward, the Iranian Islamic...