Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #81
This idea that it's our decision on who runs another country is something I never will understand. We would never accept having another country come in and put our leadership in place. I don't understand how it is we think other countries will be OK with it.
As I said before, the Shah was our ally, and a very important ally. We had an obligation to support him and assist him.
The Khomeniacs, we knew, were a threat to our interests, and the interests of every peaceful nation in that region, should they be allowed to rise to power. I don't know that Carter could have possibly anticipated the scope of the long-term consequences that would result from allowing the Khomeniacs to have the resources of an entire nation at their disposal, but he certainly knew of our obligations to our ally, the Shah, and he certainly had to know that allowing the Khomeniacs to come to power would have been very bad for everyone involved. Every President since Carter has had to deal with the fallout from Carter's abject incompetence and neglect in this matter. It was the fall of the Shah, and the rise of the Khomeniacs, that let to the spread of the disease of violent Islamism across that whole region, that has led to nearly all of the troubles that the world has had in modern times with Islamist-based terrorism. If not for Carter's incompetence and neglect, the original World Trade Center would still be standing, and about three thousand Americans who were murdered the day it fell would still be alive.
At the very least, even if we did allow the Shah to fall, and the Khomeniacs to take over Iran, once they attacked our Embassy, we should have declared war on them, and used that excuse to exterminate this disease before it had the chance to spread to other nations.
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