[WOSG]

We Conservatives should make a point of marking the starting point of the Terrorism War as *1979*, the year Iranian students took American hostages.

It will remind people of all that Jimmy Carter did to make terrorism possible. Without Jimmy, the Shah would never have fallen. Which means hezbollah would never have been funded, which mean lebanon would never have become a mess, which means Israel would have been able to deal with Arafat properly, which means the palestinian problem would never have degenerated into a civil terroristic war. With the Shah and US support, Iraq would never have attacked Iran, which means they never would have attacked Kuwait either.


Conclusion: Without Jimmy Carter's multiple clusterf***k foreign policy, terrorism would never have gotten as bad as it did, on 9/11.

Terrorism War - Started under Jimmy Carter, ended under George W Bush (God willing).

[Poohbah]

Without Jimmy, the Shah would never have fallen.

Actually, if we'd thrown everything into keeping the Shah in power, the net result would have been that the Shah had fallenp--and that the USSR would have occupied Iran under the terms of the 1921 Treaty of Friendship between the USSR and Iran.