The greatest error of judgment "the great Satan" committed was that it did not bomb the hell out of Khomeini and his terrorist thugs the day after its embassy was attacked by the Iranian mobs! But, then again a weak liberal idiot by the name Jimmy Carter was the president, ......and the rest is history!

As long as there are $100 billion dollar arms deals to be had, the cockroach republik would be an asset.

Even though it may have looked good to the policy makers at the time (you know, a religious regime would be a strong detrent to the USSR Commies and their worldly aspirations), it was a miscalculaiton to remove the Shah and install theocracy. But hey, as long as we can keep the military industrial complex going, who cares?