no question if jimmy carter had turned the us air force loose on Iran immeadiately that they took the embassy and continued bombing until the embassy guys were either released , or god forbid, executed we would not be in iraq and al qaeda would not have attacked NYC.
why? because that first act of us cowardice and weakness, by carter, set the pattern for everything to folow: BEIRUT, MOGADISHU, Bush 1 not getting it done in Iraq the first time, bill clinton fanning on osama bin laden, etc etc etc.
History is clear. the choice is not war or peace. the choice is:
small war now, or big war later masquerading as peace now.
now we got the big war. thanks Jimmy Carter.
"now we got the big war. thanks Jimmy Carter."
I wonder if Jimmuh ever lets this notion slip into his thinking about the current world situation?
As Churchill stated after Munich, "They were given a choice between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor, and now will have war." Too bad Carter didn't know squat about history.