I guess I don’t quite get the meaning of the phrase. To me, if Operation Eagle Claw was about putting Iran in it’s place/punishment for taking the hostages, that would be something done in anger. A rescue mission, even if lethal force was used, wouldn’t be. Is that an odd interpretation?
More in sorrow than in anger, we were forced to shoot, dismember and generally blow the heads off the Iranian students to rescue the hostages…
I suppose that works. I’m inclined to give Carter the nod on this anyway wrt his assertion since the mission failed and no Iranians were hurt in the making of the cluster fuck.
Well, I wouldn’t go so far as “sorrow” but there’s certainly a few more “angry” responses than a rescue mission.