He's been in hospice longer than the hostages were in Iran.
Yes. He does. The Shah was better.
What about the American people?
Ooh Rah!
Jimmy Carter owes a lot of Americans an apology.
BTW, the deposed CIA-installed Shah was a son of a bitch in his own right. Doesn’t excuse the current regime’s atrocities, but the revolution happened for a reason and disappearances of political opponents, crushing dissidents and protests, stealing money & property from citizens was aplenty during that regime.
Drill, baby Drill.
Billy Beer >>> Bud Light.
Reagan was elected in m 1980; he took the oath of office in January,1981.
Someone please post the score
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Jimmy Carter....the Grandaddy of modern terrorism.
If one has never been to a muslim country, one doesn’t have any idea what they’re like on the ground.
Afghanistan....Yes, Bacha Bazi is real.
The entire Muslim World...led by people that are considered heavy handed. Why? Because they know how dangerous the ‘bad guys’ are.
So, they do one of two things or both:
1. they put them in prison for a long, long time, as the Shah and so many others did.
2. they corral them in an area and leave them alone. They’re left alone with the knowledge that if they pop their heads out and cause trouble, it’s going to be bad, really really bad for them and their pals.
When Carter forced the Shah out and rolled out the red carpet for the Ayatollah, the prisons were emptied and modern terrorism was reborn.
Of course, no one likes to talk about another terrorist, Mandela. In prison for bombings and murders, but they ignore all of that and paint him as a political prisoner.
Carter owes the people of Iran an apology.
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100% agree. A colossal blunder and a betrayal.
Neither Jimmy Carter nor the CIA could have cured the Shah’s leukemia and the Pahlavi dynasty would have never survived the death of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The USSR was involved in the timing of the Iranian “student uprising” in order to provide cover for their invasion of Afghanistan. Moscow correctly predicted that Carter would become completely preoccupied with Iran and so would not have the division of attention to interfere with their annexation of Afghanistan.
He even had given the USSR a Ford truck plant with the proviso that all trucks be painted red, believing that that would make them unsuitable for military use. The Russians simply set up an auto body repair shop on their side of the border with Afghanistan and the invasion forces rode in in freshly repainted olive drab Ford trucks.
Carter also was responsible in part for the US intelligence community being blindsided by the embassy siege in Tehran because he had decimated the US’s entire human intelligence community with his Executive Order 12036. Taking a page from former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson’s playbook, he believed that human spying was a base and reprehensible activity. As Stimson put it, “Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.”
Thanks to EO 12036, HUMINT in Iran was reduced to a shadow of what it previously had been, leaving the US’s intel assets spread too thin to catch wind of the “student revolution.”
One of Boss Ray-Guns first acts as POTUS was to sign Executive Order 12333, which countermanded most of Carter’s EO 12036, particularly the restrictions it placed on HUMINT.
I just remember when the Shah was celebrating something like 2500 years of Iranian monarchy, and my dad pointed out that the Shah’s father had seized power only about 50 years before.
At the time Carter was the worst President of my lifetime.
He’s since been succeeded by Biden.
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Um, France could have helped matters by NOT releasing Khomeini to go back to Iran.
Carter administration paved [the] way” for Khomeini’s return to Iran from exile.
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And if they get their way foolish Republicans will do the same for Ukraine - pave the way for Putin’s return.
B.S.
Thankfully, that sad chapter finally ended on Jan. 20, 1980, the day President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office at the U.S. Capitol.
Looks like it was proofread by John Kerry.
He owes the Jews in Israel, an apology.
The democrats think evil can be changed to nice.