[Paradox]

Carter's response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was to boycott the Moscow Olympics.

I read somewhere that the reason the Soviets went into afghanistan in the first place was that they KNEW Carter would do nothing about it... thus the Mujahedeen, which we, at the time, had to support, thus the Taliban, thus Al-Qaida, thus 9-11..

[Question_Assumptions]

Exactly. The whole rise of Muslim Fundamentalism that we are dealing with now got a big boost during the Carter Presidency.