The biggest blunder in the Middle East was the one that started it all; Jimmy Carter abandoning the Shah of Iran.
The biggest blunder in the Middle East was the one that started it all; Jimmy Carter abandoning the Shah of Iran.
You’re right. It was downhill from there on.
That was a bad one, but us stopping the Brits and French from curb-stomping Egypt over nationalizing the Suez canal in 1956 was probably worse.