Very excellent point. Carter threw out the Shah and brought in the mullahs with a vengeance. Its arguable you would not have today's terrorist problem without Carter. You certainly would not have all the problems caused by Iran, which used to be our staunch military ally in the MidEast.
"Carter threw out the Shah and brought in the mullahs with a vengeance"
You are kidding me right. There is no evidence Carter had anything to do with the ayatollah's rise to power. You can claim he didn't do enough to keep the Shah in power, but the real force behind the coup was not the US government but the fundamentalist whackos in Iran. You do realize that the Shah was near death during this period of time. Carter may have been foolish and incompetant but to claim that carter threw the shah out and brought in the mullahs is absured.