MIDDLE EASTERN DEJA VU

Somehow, the way this Middle East violence thing is being handled, I have visions of U.S. Marines coming into the Cairo Embassy in helicopters, landing on the rooftops and extracting fleeing diplomats before a angry mobs can butcher them.  Then, I realize that the vision is simply deja vu, as in the Marine extraction of U.S. imprisoned diplomats from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran back in 1981,  when Jimmy Carter was being replaced by Ronald Reagan.  (If I remember correctly, Carter blamed Nixon for that.)