Posted on 06/24/2025 12:37:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
World leaders either become known for quickly learning life’s lessons–or not. The latter category is largely a product of one’s personal lust for power intertwined with an ideology allowing it to flourish. But membership is at times encouraged by the former’s failure to appropriately discourage the latter’s aggressive behavior early on.
Falling into the latter category is Iran’s mullahs. It has taken them nearly a half century to learn an important lesson, coming after testing two U.S. presidents—one weak, one strong—who served in two different centuries. That lesson employs a simple rule of thumb concerning who has a foreign policy backbone: Weak president, no; strong president, yes.
The mullahs’ journey to power began in 1979, after the Iranian people rose up in defiance of their Shah. Despite the Shah being the second biggest supporter of America in the Middle East, behind Israel, President Jimmy Carter encouraged him to step down and allow Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomenei, exiled to France in 1964 for anti-Shah activism, to return. Iranians embraced Khomenei as the spiritual and political leader of their revolution.
A former peanut farmer and Georgia governor, Carter completely lacked the foreign policy skills a president needed. He campaigned and took office as president in 1977 making naive promises, like removing all U.S. ground forces from South Korea.
Although Carter immediately initiated this process after taking office, he ultimately abandoned it in July 1979 after intense domestic and international opposition. But the weak cut of Carter’s jib did not go unnoticed by Khomeini. By the time Khomeini would finish playing Carter, the mullahs would no longer be riding on donkeys for transportation but in limousines.
Only released years later was a letter from Khomeini to Carter making a personal appeal to pave the way for the religious leader’s return to Iran. Khomeini promised to stabilize the...
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I have not read the entire article yet, but with the name Zumwalt, it promises to be interesting.
Even Jimmah's brother Billy would have been a better President.
Carter really wasn’t a peanut farmer, he was a peanut distributor, as I recall.
Farmers usually have common sense.
Carter really wasn’t a peanut farmer, he was a peanut distributor, as I recall.
Or maybe a processor taking them in. I forget.
Farmers usually have common sense.
“Peanut farmer” never sounded right. Distributor or processor makes more sense.
The democrats support criminal acts. Look at the cities and states run by democrats here. When a president like Carter was in charge he was being stupid and thinking he could control madmen. obama wanted Iran to have nuclear bombs. He did not care that millions would die as a result. He would be in Hawaii when the bombs went off.
Biden was looking for bribe money.
Others in the democrat party just thought the Iranians would never bomb us. Yes they are stupid.
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