“And I voted for him. “
I didn’t. I voted for Ford.
The spread of extremist Islam is independent of any thing Carter did, or didn’t do.
It’s been going on for 1,300 years.
To stop it you’d have to kill each and every one of them.
Helping Islam in the manner Carter did can’t really be considered an independent action to its spread.
Well now you are making a positive suggestion.
Seriously, while we can't do that, we have pissed away opportunities to hurt the spread of Islam in a serious way. Instead the west has encouraged its spread. Laying the groundwork for the future deaths of many innocent westerners.
We can't "kill each and every one of them" but the reality is that in order to survive as a culture, we will at some point be forced to kill a lot of them.
Not being on constant offense against Islam is tantamount to surrendering.