Posted on 09/23/2004 5:43:23 PM PDT by The Real Indepman
It's [k]eerie, Carter's failed Iran policy seems to be the template for the Kerry Iraq plan...
"Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini?
No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.
The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.
By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever.
Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages.
I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.]
With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power.
And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America. President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies.
We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this."
Jimmie Carter is the hero of the left.
So True. But you are only looking at the empty half of the glass.
The good news is that because Jimmy Carter was so incompetent we had the great fortune to elect Ronald Reagan who ended the Cold War. So, in his own way, the Inspector Clueso way, Carter helped end the Cold War
He was the WORST.
on the right side of the field.
as he should be.
jimmuh does yeoman's work to advance world socialism... just recently, he bailed out chavez, a.k.a. "castro - the sequel". he ranks up there with stalin in increasing the power and influence of Communism in the world.
that he would win the nobel peace prize is no accident...
I am angry all over again.
Not to mention the Panama Canal and the botched rescue.
Didn't he pardon all the draft dodgers too??
And cancel the B1 bomber?
Jimmy Carter, the first communist president.
And let us not forget his "intervention" along with that other Dem paragon of corruption, venality, insincerity and cowardice , Klintoon in North Korea in 1994 , which has led to North Korea now having nuclear weapons
Carturd is a limp wrist.
We can thank Jimmah Carturd for Robert Mugagbe and his reign of death in Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. Also, add Andrew Young to that list. And thank Jimmah Carturd for Mugabe's recent speech in the UN vilifying thr US for its action the Iraq and the world.
And he did all this in just one term. Thank goodness, Reagan beat him.
Midwife to Islamofascism.
I know the guy who Briefed Carter when he visited Korea the first time after being elected. He went to Seoul with the intention of Pulling us out UNILATERALLY. Leaving the ROK forces holding the bag.
Fortunately, after all the generals showed him what a FREAKING moronic thing it would be and what a disaster it would be, he had the sense to renege on that intention.
He is an ABSOLUTE low-grade imbecile.
Bttt
Wrong, it was not Bush I's decision, he was merely following orders from the stupid UN resolution that only called for Iraqi forces to be driven out of Kuwait.
The Hostage Rescue Attempt In Iran, April 24-25, 1980
Evidence Jimmy Carter abandoned the Shah
http://rescueattempt.tripod.com/id24.html
That Terrorist/Communist loving Psychopath should be in Prison for the rest of his life.
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