Jimmy Carter authored the single greatest foreign policy betrayal in modern human history. His cowardly abandonment of the Shah of Iran directly birthed the world’s most dangerous state sponsor of terrorism. President Ronald Reagan famously exposed this catastrophic blunder with unyielding fury. Reagan identified the betrayal of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as a permanent stain of shame upon the American record. The Shah had stood as a formidable, reliable pillar of regional stability in the Middle East for three solid decades. He built modern infrastructure, distributed agricultural land to millions of impoverished farmers, and funded affordable housing across his nation. His...