Well, I wonder if Jimmy has any regrets about his actions back then.
In the past few years, he’s made some statements which suggest he’s still bitter about losing the 1980 election.
But don’t recall him ever expressing regret about his actions relating to Iran and the Shah.
Peanuts sequestered himself in the White House to study the koran, trying to figure out what this moehammedan fervor was all about.
He still doesn’t get it.
“But don’t recall him ever expressing regret about his actions relating to Iran and the Shah.”
Do you have any suggestion how Carter could have kept the Shah alive long enough to see the election of Reagan?
In 1976, Gerald Ford, a better man than Jimmy Carter in so many ways, made the tactical mistake of not simply stepping aside after the pardon he gave Nixon, and allowing Ronald Reagan to assume the race for the Presidency four years sooner than was actually the case. Reagan would have found much more common ground with the Shah than Jimmy Carter ever would have, and the Shah would never have allowed the situation that brought Saddam Hussein to power in Iraq, and the seemingly endless border war between Iran and Iraq that festered for so many years.
Jimmy Carter shall forever have the legacy attached to his name of making the Sunni/Shi’ite schism within Islam the world problem it has grown to in the past 40 years.
It did not help Carter’s case one bit that after stirring up the commotion between Sunni and Shi’ite, he embarked on a program of making America even MORE dependent on foreign sources of petroleum, by shutting down the exploitation of the vast quantities of relatively cheap domestic natural gas, as an applicable substitute for petroleum in industrial use.
While peanut brain was one of the worst presidents of all time,he was the worst ex-president of all time.