It is my opinion that Islamic Terrorism got its start due to Carter. Before that, terrorists were mainly the anti-Israel and IRA types, and even though the PLO were Muslim, they were closer in political thought to the Communists than the Islamic Fundamentalists.
As a point of historical fact, the PLO were more or less created in Moscow, and Arafat was ENTIRELY created by Andropov’s KGB.
An argument FOR Carter (as if!) would be that he undercut Andropov by helping advance the weakened Islamist agenda of the 1970s.
Enough of this argument was available to give the US support of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan in the 1970s and 80s a pro-Islamist bent.
Some strange twists along the way, proving both the US and the Soviets were dramatically naïve about Islam.
Exactly Bob. Carter destroyed the Shaw using the cia and a once Americanized nation,Iran, is now hell bent on nuclear jihad with mad mullahs in command.