Israel Reaps What Jimmy Carter Sowed
Posted By: DVC, 10/11/2023 5:14:24 PM
The war launched by Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel has roots that go back centuries, but a more recent critical node in the story is the Iranian Revolution of 1979, when militant Islam achieved state power in the ancient Persian land. Then, the world watched as a longtime American ally — the shah of Iran and the Pahlavi dynasty — was ousted from power with the tacit acceptance of the Carter administration, which had been critical of the shah (and other American allies) for “human rights” violations. The revolutionary regime backed “students” who seized the U.S. embassy and 52 American hostages for 444 humiliating days, while President Jimmy Carter
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Adios.
Auf Wiedersehen.
Whatever the hell is Chinese for, “Later, dude.”
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The Islamist terror group slaughtered 1,200 civilians and took more than 200 hostage in its massacre on October 7. Since then, the Palestinians claim more than 10,000 people have died in Israel's bombing campaign.
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This topic was commented upon by several posters in a different thread today. Here's the meat from Am Spec Jimmah was a fool, and naive to boot. He came across as a nice guy, but repeatedly sided with the Arabs against Israel, many times quite horribly after he had left the White House. A really rotten, destructive person...with a genial smile.