But I'll throw in my 2 cents on “who's to blame” for the rise of radical Islam. Hint: He's 90 years old and recently announced he has cancer. His initials are Jimmy Carter.
When Jimmy Carter abandoned support for The Shaw if Iran it destabilized the middle east like nothing else could have. Iran was an ally of Israel.
To this day I believe Carter was the worst president of my lifetime. Worse than Obama, and that's low and pathetic indeed.
You are absolutely correct regarding the Buffoon from Georgia, many people forget that when that peanut-brained clown stumbled into the Oval Office in January ‘77, the Shah of Iran was a solid and dependable ally of the United States, Iran was a secular Islamic state with NO designs on it’s neighbors, they were in fact a bulwark against Soviet aggression in that region, and Iran was actually one of Israel’s premiere trading partners and had cordial relations with them.
That all changed once Jimmah stabbed the Shah in the back, he actually called the Ayatollah Khomeini a ‘godly man’ and all but incited those Islamic thugs to seize power, and when they proceeded to invade our embassy and took our people hostage, Carter showed all the resolved of an impotent, befuddled old fool, and he totally screwed the pooch. Iran went from a force for stability in the Persian Gulf, to a rogue terrorist state for which Carter is absolutely responsible.
It took the Inauguration of the greatest President of the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan, to get those muckety-muck mullahs to turn our people loose, because they knew Reagan would lay some major strategic smackdown on them, and kick the Shiite right out of ‘em.
A former tagline of mine said “Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American history, Obama is the yellow stain in front”, that was true then, and still true today.
Carter hates Israel, and that is why (IMHO) he’s got cancer, because that hate is finally eating him up, it almost makes me feel sorry for the cancer cells, having to eat a feces sandwich like that.