Well, duh...
No kidding - Jimmuh stabbed the Shah in the back, big time.
I hope the writer isn’t learning that just now.
Remember how Jimmuh made such a BIIIIG deal about carrying his OWN luggage..?
Years later it turned out it was PROPS for the cameras —EMPTY luggage.
“The instant there were cameras, he’d start in with that, seize the empty luggage that WE carried, in addition to his REAL luggage...”
—Secret Service (said much later
Or maybe we could have not gotten involved in the ‘53 overthrow of the Iranian Prime Minister.
Yep, but Commie Carter just couldn't bear being mean to Commies.
Just a few dead Commies would have put everything right.
Is this something new?
Carter should have sided with the Shah and we should have visited Paris to help Khomeini speed up his trip to see Allah.
We could have urged the Shah to loosen his Iron Fist enough to win greater support from his People, but good old Jimmy loved them Radical Islamic Terrorists too much for his own good.
Instead we have a Nuclear Iran. Good job Jimmy, it’s another winning accomplishment like giving away the Panama Canal.
The only way to control islam retards is by force. Duh.
Jimmy Carter inexplicably sided with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and ousted the Shah of Iran, a staunch American ally, with a phony, mostly manufactured crisis emanating from inside Jimmy Carter's mind.
“Let’s see what else would have been different had Carter relented, and the Shah remained. With the Islamic Revolution never occurring, Iran under the Shah enters into the 1980’s, when Ronald Reagan is elected President in the United States. Always a supporter of Iran in general and the Shah in particular, Reagan continues the close friendship that had long existed between the nations.”
That would have been difficult statesmanship.
The Shah was dead before Reagan became president.
This article is baloney. The Shah was not a real king, let alone a successor to the ancient Persian kings. He was a puppet dictator installed by the UK and US in a coup that overthrew a democratically elected President who defied British Petroleum. There was nothing the US could have done to keep the Shah in power, he had very few supporters among the Iranian people. It’s retarded and pointless to keep rehashing these Cold War era lies about world events.
I have been saying that since 1979.
Carter did an outstanding job of destroying South Africa, too. A fine, stable country is now a cesspool.
Kennedy lost Cuba
LBJ lost Vietnam
Carter lost Iran
Clinton lost Osama
I see a trend.
Yeah, No ship Sherlock!
That’s right. Jimmy’s masterful management of foreign affairs destabilized that region for nearly 40 years now. He also give away the Panama Canal without so much as a negotiation to keep it. Then he inserted himself into the North Korean nuclear weapons program situation, gifting the North with the ability to develop nuclear weapons. Then they shared information with Iran.
As if this wasn’t enough, he occasionally toured the world meeting with Marxist dictators. He also prided himself on validating elections where Marxists were involved, always declaring them valid when the Marxists won. Leaving the nation soon after.
Carter, Clinton, and Obama have thoroughly screwed up global dynamics. I’d like to say they alone did so, but our trade with China supported by both parties will lead to massive problems over time.
We’re on a countdown there. It’s just a matter of time.
Just goes to show elections have consequences...Jimbo was elected only because he wasn’t a Republican, and turned out to be a horrible mistake!
Carter let the Shah fall because the Shah wouldn’t pay a $2 billion bribe to allow Halliburton build his new port complex.
In many ways, I suspect Carter’s inept handling of the hostage crisis, incuding the failed rescue attempt put Reagan over the top. Had Carter backed the Shah and resisted the islamic revolution in Iran, there would not have been an embassy takeover and possibly no Reagan in 80.