And what's so ironic about this is that while Carter rightly gets much of the blame for the rise of Islam because of his failures in Iran, it Zbigniew Brzezinski who was the original architect for many of these policies. These same people who regularily blame Reagan for supporting the Mujahedin (and thus the creation of UBL) ignore that this policy had its genesis with Brzezinski...who even admits this.
From hanging the Shah out to dry to his Arc of Crisis...to even support for the "secular" Saddam over Iran in the Iraq/Iran War, Brzezinski was the leading proponent and originator for many of these policies. He was the architect for the use of supporting and arming so-called moderate Muslims against the USSR.