The New York Times editorialized for rage and sanctioned military retaliation against Iran

Evidence

The victims were directly transmuted into heroes (understandably upsetting various veterans’ and former-POW groups) and symbols of freedom, their captors into subhuman beasts. To this end the New York Times said editorially on January 22, “let there be rage and revulsion in those first hours of release,” and then, having reflected for a while, came up with the following questions on January 28: “What should have been done? Mining harbors, or landing marines, or dropping a few bombs might frighten rational foes. But was Iran — is Iran — rational?” — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 90