Oscar season aside, almost everything associated with the Iranian hostage crisis was humiliation at best and tragedy at worst for the United States. The lowest trough came when eight American troops lost their lives in a bungled attempt to land Delta Force commandos by way of helicopter and CIA trucks into Tehran. You can read more about that here:
Operation Eagle Claw
Eagle Claw was a disaster every bit as much as the Candian Caper was a success. The tremendous complexity of the plan provided many opportunities for failure, and failure came knocking early and often. The fixed-wing transports clipped their wings on landing, dust in the wind turned the air opaque, hydraulics in the helicopters failed, and finally two aircraft blinded by dust plowed into each other on the ground, starting a raging fire in the middle of a deeply hostile country. Along with that time he was chased by a killer jackrabbit in a swamp, this was surely one of the darkest days in Carter's presidency. Argo fuck yourselves, indeed.
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