No, thank you. At very least he destroyed Iran's government and was the American architect of the Islamic Republic in Iran[1], which has a direct causal relationship to many disasters within and outside the country and led to October 7.
But sure he put solar panels on the White House. Great guy.
If someone becomes president, and a foreign government is already falling apart, and you talk about options and what might become the new government, does that automatically make it your fault? The Shah wasn't a saint, and kind of created the situation.
If you want to place blame for Iran, it might need to go further back to Eisenhower and the Coup that put the Shah in power. The US actually overthrew a democratic country, to put the Shaw, a monarch back into power.
From there forward, every president had their hand in kicking Iran. Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon.
They were all involved. Why lay it at Carters feet?
Or go further back. The West, after WW2, purposely split up the Middle East in a way to keep it in Chaos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
"The two diplomats' pencils divided the map of one of the most volatile regions in the world into states that cut through ethnic and religious communities."
No president has ever done everything right, but no president has also spent their retirement years devoted to public service. Hell, almost no _normal people_ do that.
The point is not "there are hard choices a President has to make," which is a fine attitude, but the fact that the GP idolized him so much to declare him best for "all of humanity." That is absolutely ridiculous. Clearly not.
Did you forget that Reagan negotiated with Terrorist during an election to keep the hostage's hostage? To literally sabotage their freedom to tank Carter?
"kicking every other leader down for basic decisions they had to make for the good of their people"
So, all other leaders, face difficult decisions, but Carter, he has to be held to higher standard? His decisions were not "basic decisions they had to make"? But others were? Like all others were backed into a corner, but not Carter? Did you see my post, he inherited the mess.
Are you blaming the Greeks for Imperialism? Maybe referencing Alexander the Great era when they conquered Persia? Perhaps pushing the blame for Iran even further back?
I would have sworn there was some post WW2 agreement concerning a desire to keep the Middle East in 'chaos'. But I guess I was just remembering Sykes-Picot.
Do you happen to remember anything 'like' Sykes that occurred after WW2?
The other funny and ironic thing is Shah was instrumental in mediating and shaping the deal between Sadat and Israel, but somehow he got the short end of the stick and was branded an asshole authoritarian dictator by US leftist media (see Mike Wallace 60 mins from 1976[1] for example) and Carter got the Nobel Prize.
P.S. for fun, compare to Wallace's attitude when he sat down with Khomeini only a few years later, with questions submitted and vetted in advance[2]! Oh well, how history is written and rewritten...
I'm not sure you can lay any particular blame on the 'left' for poor decisions.
It was strange how much Biden got blamed for pulling out of Afghanistan, everyone completely forgot the same pictures of Kurds.
Which were not photovoltaic and leaked like a sieve.
