[dennisw]

I never thought it about it this way but it makes perfect logic. Jimmy Carter is the President most to blame. Carter is a democrat. Democrats are crap when it comes to common sense and national security.

We have Jimmy Carter to thank. If it weren't for his idiocy re: Ayatollah Khomeini, Islamic fundamentalism and Jihadism would be 10% what it is today

[TexKat]

Jimmy Carter, not Bill Clinton. Oh my!!

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Put a joe McCarthy on steroids type as SoS and let him kick liberal ass.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

Put a joe McCarthy on steroids type as SoS and let him kick liberal ass.

[RightWhale]

True, the fall of Iran was the beginning.

[smoothsailing]

10%.

Perhaps.

There is no doubt that Carter gives free passes.

To perceived and known enemies.

And of course, there are those who applaud him for it.

This subset of humanity is best defined as "democrat".

[BfloGuy]

Yes, it was Carter.

And let's not forget the hostage crisis -- that was our thanks for getting rid of the Shah.

Finally, Jimmy followed all that up with elevating the terrorist, Arafat, to world-leader status and began negotiating with him.

[backhoe]

-Recalling the Shah of Iran--

[HighWheeler]

I hate to side against the author, and I would like to blame Carter more than anyone, the terrorists have been in our midsts for decades before that.

Take Sirhan Sirhan who killed RFK, this was probably the start of the "modern" terrorist. Then they hit the 1972 Olympics, and Israel organized and hunted down every lost one of those clowns.

And it goes all the way back to Black Jack Pershing 90 years ago.

Carter "only" fueled the hatred of terrorists for the U.S.

[marron]

Furthermore, Saddam always coveted the Arab southwestern region of Iran, but while the Shah was in power never dared to do anything about it.

But Carter convinced the Shah's generals to stand down when the Ayatollah took power, and within a couple of months all of the generals who were at the meeting with Brzhzinski's meeting were dead. The Ayatollah executed some 140 Iranian generals.

That is when Saddam decided he could take the Iranian southwest, and launched his war.

The fall of the Shah led directly to the Iran Iraq war, and the decade of troubles that followed.

[LiteKeeper]

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