The Failed Iran Hostage Rescue, 1980
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Captured American Embassy personnel, Tehran, Iran. November 4, 1979.
Mounting policy disasters have led many to ask why members of the Trump administration do not resign their positions as a matter of principle.
Some have argued that it is a lack of principles that is at fault. One cannot resign as a matter of principle if he has none.