I remember this well. Carter was predisposed against the Shah on human rights grounds, and naively believed he could base foreign policy on his personal sanctimonious principles. That, plus an astounding level of credulity in believing the deceptions and poses of foreign rulers, made him the worst foreign policy president in history.
Carter, like Biden, was a failure as president.
“Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times”
Carter’s ‘Human Rights’ drive is what led to friendly governments collapsing in country-after-country, only to be replaced my far more HORRIBLE governments, often aligned with the Soviets.
He was psycho in that regard.
Without Carter, Iran wouldn’t be under the mullahs.
Carter was a walking, talking, disaster. Good riddance.
“US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi.”
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US intelligence, i.e. CIA, are anti-American one world government formerly fascists now currently morphed into Red Fascists. Of course they supported Khomeini.
Here’s an interesting interview, where Khomeini is under the impression the USA fosters leftism in Iran, but the truth is we, via the CIA, fostered his fascist Islam.
(Behind a paywall but, you can probably read this article via switching to reader mode on your browser)
An Interview With KHOMEINI
Oct. 7, 1979
An Interview With KHOMEINI
The New York Times Archives
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/07/archives/an-interview-with-khomeini.html
Stupid is as stupid does.
Carter was not a good guy.
He always sided with the greater of two evils.
He is a great example of the road to hell paved with good intentions.
The Democrats and their Propaganda Media are desperately trying to snatch Carter’s legacy out of the garbage dump, groping for something—ANYTHING—that might lesson history’s indictment of the party of slavery, infanticide, the ku klux klan, the American gulag—and Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Lyndon Johnson.
“These evaluations were the fruits of delusions of a reality that didn’t match the Middle Eastern reality,”
US education has failed the country. None of our ‘leaders’ has a clue about history or cuture
The 1 thing I remember from the Ayatollah’s writings while in exile that were published in Playboy was that he said it was okay to have sex with an animal, but a sin to have sex with an animal and then kill it and eat it afterwards.
This is who the peanut farmer trusted to be a calming force in the region
I was in Iran during the revolution and saw the havoc firsthand. The Shah was trying his best to Westernize Iran and promoting women into roles other than being homebodies. We now see how well that worked out with the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Khomeini took refuge in France for a bit ... as did Ho Chi Minh and other infamous notables, all of leftist bent.
Saddam Hussein’s Iraq also played sanctuary for him.
All those who thought he would be more useful to us were morons.
“US intelligence determined Khomeini would be an Iranian Gandhi.” Would that be the CIA?
I don’t know who to blame Carter or the CIA? Most likely, both.
It is very likely the world will burn because of Carter. Iran will use the nukes as soon as they have enough to accomplish their goals. Carter put the monsters that will do so in place and destroyed a pro-western government. I am sure democrats are button busting proud.
Iran spells another area where Carter was ignorant, misinformed and duped into backing the wrong policies.
Jimmy Carter: ‘I believe that Jesus would approve of gay marriage’