Jimmah Cahtah and his Dr. Strangelove National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, quite intentionally funded and encouraged the rise of Islamic fundamentalism as a way of destabilizing the Soviet Union.
The strategy didn't succeed, but it did create a mestastacizing cancer in the Islamic world that haunts us still, and proves once again that just because someone can create a monster doesn't mean he can control the monster once created.
I don't want to excuse Clinton. He was a disaster for sure. But you mustn't overlook the enormous disaster that was James Earl Carter.
Point made. You were paying attention back then, weren't you? :o) I had forgotten about Brezinski - such an intelligent misguided man. Or perhaps I should say he was the one doing the guiding. "Cahtah" was a simpleton next to him. Oh heck, Cahtah was a simpleton next to me.