Why was there such a sharp fall off in American Education after him? Because he put the federal government in charge of education. There is no worse betrayal then to lobotomize the youth of an entire country. Your own country.
A total four-flushing phony. Read the book by one of his Secret Service agents - the “press” kissed his tail bc he carried his own suit bag. The bag was as empty as Carter’s brain; when he was out of the sight of cameras, he dropped it and made the guards carry his full bag.
My post 13 applies to you. Was Jimmy Carter also complicit in the murder of a US president?
My God. The number of people who are so ignorant of history in which they probably lived through. It’s amazing.
He was good. The problem was his naivete. Trusted Brezhnev and let the Shah lose his country. Unable to see that Iranian students in the US that were paid for with oil money hated him. That oil money was meant to bring Iran into the 20th century. The Shah’s big picture had to be carried out in an end justifies the means manner. Didn’t work. Carter was naive enough to think the embassy wouldn’t be attacked by crazies. It gave Brezhnev the opening to go into Afghanistan. It was 2 years earlier that Carter cancelled the neutron bomb as an olive branch to the Russians. That was stupid as well as unreciprocated. Then there’s the canal. It was the right thing to do and the treaty gave the US the right to use military force should a civil disturbance in Panama threaten the canal. The naivete comes into focus when his successors allowed Panama to give control to China along with MFN status. Foreign policy blunders didn’t do him in as much as inflation and interest rates. Throw in Billy Carter, Andrew Young meeting with mid east enemies, and the failed hostage rescue attempt you end up with a joke for a president. I think Carter was a good mentor to Bill Clinton on how to not run a country.