Carter, if anyone remembers, was a disaster as a President and through the years nothing has changed.
CARTER was the WORST PRESIDENT until OBAMA came along. Now CARTER is the second worst!
The middle East problems really began with Carter’s betrayal of the Shah of Iran, and allowing the Russians to invade Afghanistan in their push to the Indian Ocean to try and gain their dream of a warm water port.
Before Carter we had to deal with oil embargoes from OPEC.
I remember the early protest march chant...”HELL NO! WE WON’T GO FOR TEXACO!”
And after the oil embargo put the squeeze on them, they changed their tune....”NUKE THEIR A$$ AND TAKE THEIR GAS!”