Peanut head gave us 40 years of Iranian terror. The Shah was one of the US’s staunchest allies.
Islam was headed toward the dustbin of history (or morphing into some nohostile modern version.). Carter by allowing radical Islam (Shia version) to suceed. He emboldened radical Sunni versions. Anyone who doesn’t believe that the Carter era was a turning point can go look on the Internet and find !960s sylish dress of young men & women in Iran & Kabul. If you want to trace the change also look for class pictures of American Universoti Cairo & Beirut). Particularly look at the young women they went from stylish European fashions (worn somewhat modestly!) to class pictures of laundry bags with eyeslits. You can almost track the changes by year.
And its true it wasn’t only Carter, European cowardice played a big role too!