The same Jimmeh who let the Shah be overthrown
“Carter’s foreign policy centered around a promise to make human rights a central concern in the United States’ relations with other countries.”
That quote is from Carter’s bio on this site: http://www.biography.com/people/jimmy-carter-9240013#southern-politician
What Carter failed & still fails to understand is that being a ‘humanist or a humanitarian’ is relative, and has a pre-requisite of using one’s brain to project forward & take an educated guess on how matters will develop should you support a fundamentalist muslim cleric with a trackrecord of agitation, inciting hatred, spreading lies, and being a clear megalomanic to realize a very personal ambition to rule.
Now, i would personally accept Carter made a dire mistake in supporting Khomeini, due to his own ignorance.
But the fact that Carter kept absolutely silent when his ‘holy man khomeini’ was killing innocent people on masse in iran, shows Carter’s true character & is/was in direct contradiction of his ‘humanitarian ideal.’
Moreover, to date he has not only not acknowlwdged that he made a grave mistake, but continues to peddle the same line elsewhere with islamists.
The above, IMO, show that being a peanut farmer is not enough to take on the leadership of a key superpower on the global scene.
Regardless of a section of iranians protesting within iran at the time, khomeini & his thugs would have NEVER assumed power had they not had support from Mr Carter. That’s Carter’s true legacy, not to mention that he turned geopolitics in that region upside down and for worse.