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The Shah understood the Muslim ways, and brought his people into the modern world by using the old tactics to further the new enlightenment. His secret police were brutal thugs, therefore, most Iranians went to great lengths never to meet any of them. The Shah was no choir boy, but in that part of the world, he was better than most. Iran had a first class educational system, a solid and prosperous middle class, and a military that was the envy of it's neighbours.
Of course the radical Muslim terrorists toppled him.


Jimmy Carter's solution to the turmoil of 1979-1982 was the U.N. and the World Court in the Hague. Oh yeah, the evil Muslims were shaking in their sandals. The Rose Garden Strategy...Gawd, how I despise that miserable old monster.
And his minions, between Brezshinski, Jody Powell, and Joe Califano, there wasn't a decent pair in the entire White House during the inception of the Terrorism we know today.

Today, we must deal with an old, bitter, defeated Jimmy Carter. He didn't get a second term and he hates Americans for that...and today Jimmy works harder at destroying America than he ever worked as POTUS.

[MizSterious]

The Shah wasn't a choir boy, you're right. But compared to what followed, he was a veritable political hero. I will forever blame Carter for the terrorism we have today, plus the decimation of the military (only partially restored by Reagan). If this country had deliberately sought out the worst possible person for President, they would have still chosen Carter. Even Clinton couldn't quite reach those depths, although Heaven knows, he tried.