I was but a foetus in the womb when everything happened in Iran. I don’t want to see this happen, but I’m interested to see where it goes.
I’m not only interested, but you and I have a vested interest in that region remaining stable. It is absolutely vital that it does.
I kindof short changed you there.
In 1976 Jimmy Carter became president. He was a milk-toast loon. His most famous quote was that the United States’ best days were behind it. We would have to learn to accept our new status.
Carter fancied himself a Christian’s Christian. He took one look at the Shah and a few other world leaders, and announced he wasn’t going to play ball with what he thought were bad world leaders.
So good old Jimmy not only cut off support of the Shah, but being the good Christan he was, he even refused to let the Shah come to the U. S. to get treatment for Cancer. The Shah (our ally) had to go nation hopping to get treatment. Within a year or so he was dead.
Meanwhile, after Jimmy had worked his magic, the Ayatollah’s took over Iran. There purges took place that made the Shah look like a boy scout. The women were forbidden to attend school. They had to put back on the window dressings of Islam, the veil and the black robes. Shariah law ruled the day. Women were back to being cattle and anyone that wasn’t a devout Islamicist was in danger of being killed.
Not only was Iran turned into a hell-hole, but it’s radical leadership set up terrorist camps and proliferated that sort of thing to other nations around the region. What we are seeing today is in no small measure, a result of Iran’s blossoming effect on the region.
Syria had been a bad player for decades. It was in the USSR’s camp. It pushed terrorism for decades, trying to destabilize Israel and other Western nations. Lebanon was under constant threat. Then Iran became like Syria. In Iraq, Hussein went south because he didn’t have a strong leader on his East. He even attacked Iran, leading to the Iran Iraq war which saw about 500,000 people in both nations killed off.
Had the Shah not been deposed, his son would have taken over from him, and a million people would have continued to live.
Kuwait would not have been invaded. The first and second Gulf Wars would not have had to have been fought.
Radical Islam flourished because there was a base for them. There was support for them. No, Iran wasn’t the total problem to be sure, but it’s fall to radical Islam, and the fact that it couldn’t be counted on to keep it in check in the region, was very detrimental to world peace.
And now some folks on this thread actually think five more Irans in the Middle-East will be a good thing.
It just boggles the mind how clueless people can be.
I was young, but married with young children when I watched the Ayatolla land in Iran. I knew for some reason that it was a very bad thing even tho I knew not much about politics and even less about the world and the Middle East. It just felt like a bad thing in a way I could not really put words to. This has that feel to it. I would like to be wrong.