rightwinger
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Sometimes you have to let the people decideHis weakness emboldened the radical revolutionaries......I thought you claim to be a teacher?
It was Carter's weakness that he withdrew support for the Shah of Iran, the very best ally that we had in that part of the world at the time, allowing him to be overthrown and the Khomeniacs to take over. This is where the violent, savage form of Islamism was allowed to take solid root, and from there, to spread like a deadly disease across that pat of the world. All the trouble that we've had since then with Islamist-based terrorism all is rooted in this one failure on Carter's part.
It was Carter allowing the Shah into the US for medical treatment that led to the protests