Posted on 06/05/2016 8:11:33 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
New depths to Jimmy Carter’s fecklessness have emerged through the declassification of State Department cables relating to the fall of the Shah of Iran.
As reported by the BBC, the Ayatollah Khomeini, in January 1979, secretly sought Carter’s assistance in overcoming opposition from Iran’s military, still loyal to the shah. Khomeini promised that if he could return to Iran from exile in France, which the United States could facilitate, he would prevent a civil war, and his regime would not be hostile to Washington.
The soon-to-be Supreme Leader of Iran certainly knew a sucker when he saw one. What Carter did in response to Khomeini’s pledge is not entirely clear from the newly declassified materials, but Khomeini did return; the military either fell into line or was ruthlessly purged; and Iran switched 180 degrees from being a strategic US ally to being one of our most implacable adversaries.
Carter’s unwillingness to back the shah, a staunch American ally, has long been well-known, despite constant protestations of support at the time. Khomeini could not then, however, have relied on that for certain. Within Carter’s administration, hostility to the shah over his human-rights record, a centerpiece of Carter’s policy, was certainly extensive.
Iran thus posed one of the first clear tests of an American administration’s devotion to abstract principles over concrete US military and political interests.
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Easily?
Jimmy "Feckless" Carter
How much money was Carter given by the Opecker Princes to enable the Iranian thugs to take over Iran? Our middle east problems began when the Iranian Thugs took over Iran as a gift from Carter.
Jimmy Carter.....the only man to buy the Brooklyn Bridge five times.
HUH? Carter banned Iranians from coming here but didn’t expel them from the U. S.
Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American history, and Barack Obama is the yellow stain in front.
Like taking candy from a baby...
As you say...
Jimmy Carter is all Gerald Ford’s fault. If Ford hadn’t got whacked by Marine One’s helicopter blade, hadn’t claimed Poland was not dominated by the Kremlin, hadn’t told NY City to drop dead during its’ fiscal crisis and hadn’t run his campaign like one of the Three Stooges, he might have won and there would have been no Jimmy Carter. He now has the distinction of being the only person on the planet who was POTUS and was never elected to it.
And the only president who was the target of TWO assassination attempts!
I’m not sure Carter was fooled by anyone. Reports have been around for years that he was on the MidEast oil dictatorships’ payroll for many years, going back to his time as Georgia governor. It’s not hard to believe the same for those liberal pols who have been trying so hard to pervert the course of energy independence for so long; people, in my opinion, like Boxer, Markey, Waxman and so many others on the Lucrative Left.
The INS’s “P-40” operation in the early 80’s was little more than a massive jobs program for immigration attorneys.
It was purged... according to an Iranian friend in college who lost many family members. His father was a pilot in their air force under the Shah.
And then let in thousands of criminal Cubans.
IN addition to not giving out new visas he pulled the visas of Iranians already here.
Snopes tries to poo pooh it by saying Carter’s were “sanctions” while Trump’s are not.
His brother was on Qadaffi’s payroll.
Jimmy was getting Iraqi oil for food money via two American middle men- Samir Vincent and Khafaji, IIRC, right up to the war.
Maybe it wasn’t Khafaji- he was giving to the Democrats in general...
Maybe it was OScar Wyatt... who had Saddam oil vouchers.
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