It's amazing that someone with such a disastrous legacy as the worst president ever, having engendered one of the greatest geopolitical catastrophes losses the West has ever sustained as Father of the Iranian Revolution would be otherwise shamed into eternal seclusion and utter degradation.
America has emphatically demonstrated its disdain for Carter,how it considers the Carter years to be an electoral freak show, a national nightmare it is loath to be reminded of, that this sick, demented, old, has-been, never-been can't seem to get through his head.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Of course, all of this can rightly be laid at his footsteps. The Shah wasn't good enough for him, but Hamas is? Go figure!
Jimmy Carter hates Jews.
Jimmy, these people seem to share your opinion of Mr. Peanut.
His treatment of the Shah was terrible..
I remember those bad old days of imcompetent Carter. Never again! Clinton was almost as bad.
Carter is poison.
"A strong case can certainly be made that no single president did more damage to America in as short a period of time as Jimmy Carter."
I'm sure a majority of Americans, certainly those old enough to have lived through the disastrous Carter administration, would agree. Jimmy Carter was an embarrassment as president and continues to be an embarrassment to America today, 28 years after being voted out of office.
Carter's real and lasting legacy is that is a naive fool whose wishes and biases caused him to do immensely stupid things.
In the case of Iran, it's an established fact that the Shah and his regime were not a particularly shining example of freedom and good behavior. And Carter saw that, and said "he must go," failing to consider what would replace him.
That sort of short-sighted feel-goodism was the hallmark of Carter's foreign policy -- it was repeated (and exploited by the Soviets) countless times in Asia, Africa, and South America.
In 1953, the CIA was reportedly involved in the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddeq, the premier of Iran. From my admittedly limited understanding of he situation, the US government wanted a pro-western government in Iran (that of the Shaw) rather than one sympathetic to the neighboring Soviet Union.
In other words, Jimmy Carter had little responsibility for a situation which actually began in 1953.
Jimmy and Andrew Young also brought the Zimbabweans Robert Mugabe in much the same fashion.
I’ve referred to President Peanut Brain as the ‘Godfather os Islamism’ for over a decade now.
Worst president ever, bar none. (Not in any particular order):
1) Loss of the Panama Canal,
2) “feckless” boycott of the Olympics,
3) responsible for Khomeini’s rise to power (note that I did not say responsibilty for the revolution itself);
4) Sandinistas,
5) “Arab Cold War” (set the cause of comprehensive middle east peace back 30 years by brokering an ill-conceived separate peace between Israel and Egypt.
6) “National malaise”
7) double digit inflation
8) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, about which he did nothing other than (see #2, above)
9) “Lusted in my heart many times”
etc., etc....All in four, count ‘em, four years. And there are people out there who would be willing to elect Jimmah disciple Obama just to spite McCain? Are you out of your friggin’ minds?
I’m a contrarian on the subject of Jimmy Carter.
For me, the worst thing that happened under his watch, even worse than what happened in Iran, was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Kremlin rightly saw him as fatally weak and went into Afghanistan confident that Carter’s America would do nothing.
The Afghan war created Al Qaeda and Sunni Islamic fundamentalism as a real military force, and we’ll be fighting it for generations. Thanks, Jimmy.
Jimmuh destabilized the ME. We are still seeing the results of his folly.