Former Iran Hostage Remembers The Weak Jimmy Carter Corporate Media Wants You To Forget

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Posted on 01/03/2025 2:46:51 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Kevin Hermening, a Marine Security Guard when the U.S. Embassy in Tehran fell, says Carter’s bungling made America look like a ‘paper tiger.’

Kevin Hermening was a 20-year-old sergeant with the Marine Security Guard protecting the U.S. Embassy in Tehran when all hell broke loose. On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students serving the Islamic Revolution stormed the compound and held more than 50 American citizens — including Hermening — hostage. 

“We had 12-gauge shotguns and .38 caliber revolvers, and that was it,” Hermening told me this week during an interview on the “Vicki McKenna Show.” “We were way outnumbered.” The U.S. acting ambassador and the attaches gave the orders to the Marine security forces to lay down their weapons, the Wausau, Wisconsin, financial services professional said.  

“There was nothing that was going to be done to shoot our way out of it,” Hermening recalled of the chaotic day, now 45 years in the world’s rearview mirror but still so present in U.S. foreign affairs. 

The Marine and 51 others would spend the next 444 days as hostages of an unholy war that made the world’s greatest superpower look like a chump on the world stage (The revolutionaries released 13 hostages in the opening weeks of the Iran Hostage Crisis, including all of the women taken as well as the black captives — billed as “oppressed minorities” by the Iranian oppressors).

As fond to fawning remembrances of James Earl Carter flow from the pages of the corporate press following Sunday’s passing of the 39th president, many of the glowing obituaries are leaving out or glossing over some critical details. While Jimmy Carter in many ways...

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