In a way, the '70's recession and gas lines weren't all his fault. Those events go back to Nixon's economic policies, and Eisenhower's support of the Iranian Coup in the 50s. The dollar and the price of oil broke the economy. I think we place too much praise and too much blame on one office as a way to avoid the pain of trying to understand complexity of issues. But, now, this administration, all the blame certainly falls on one person. This resets a precedent. Biden has so much to fix, I'm forecasting he will get all sorts of blame and attacks from Drumpf'ers.
He did make an horrific mistake with regards to Iran. Had he taken a different stance with Ayatollah Khomeini before he stepped on Iranian soil, the Islamic Republic of Iran may have never been established -- the country may have gone in the direction of democratic socialism.
This is something I had to learn about later, it is never brought up in the HS classroom. Iran did have a fledging democracy in the 1950's. Read about Eisenhower and Iran. It was our CIA that overthrew the democratically elected government in Iran and restored complete power in the Monarch, the Shaw. This occurred in the 1950's because the democratic government wanted to nationalize their oil company's and protect their resources. Iran's natural resources belong to the Iranian people. I believe because of this, the USA sponsored Coup in Iran that gave rise to the extremism of the Ayatollah's. Carter never had a chance. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/19/eisenhower-green-lights-coup-in-iran-aug-19-1953-788012
And the French Government "kindly" protected Khomeini while he was awaiting power in exile in France! Winston Chuchill helped the US in their "endeavours". The Prime Minister, Mossadegh's daughter was at the time working as an Au Pair at my Great Aunt's place in London!
There was a book about this type of world order? Where corporations and business tells govt and militaries what to do. I’m sorry I can not remember right now the book and author who described this in the 30s or 40’s?
Stay home and watch the CNN special Rock ‘n’ Roll President. What an incredible statesman President Carter was. And such a decent man. What a Mench!
I adore him as an elder statesman, but he made some extremely erroneous moves vis à vis foreign policy.
In a way, the '70's recession and gas lines weren't all his fault. Those events go back to Nixon's economic policies, and Eisenhower's support of the Iranian Coup in the 50s. The dollar and the price of oil broke the economy. I think we place too much praise and too much blame on one office as a way to avoid the pain of trying to understand complexity of issues. But, now, this administration, all the blame certainly falls on one person. This resets a precedent. Biden has so much to fix, I'm forecasting he will get all sorts of blame and attacks from Drumpf'ers.
He did make an horrific mistake with regards to Iran. Had he taken a different stance with Ayatollah Khomeini before he stepped on Iranian soil, the Islamic Republic of Iran may have never been established -- the country may have gone in the direction of democratic socialism.
This is something I had to learn about later, it is never brought up in the HS classroom. Iran did have a fledging democracy in the 1950's. Read about Eisenhower and Iran. It was our CIA that overthrew the democratically elected government in Iran and restored complete power in the Monarch, the Shaw. This occurred in the 1950's because the democratic government wanted to nationalize their oil company's and protect their resources. Iran's natural resources belong to the Iranian people. I believe because of this, the USA sponsored Coup in Iran that gave rise to the extremism of the Ayatollah's. Carter never had a chance. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/19/eisenhower-green-lights-coup-in-iran-aug-19-1953-788012
And the French Government "kindly" protected Khomeini while he was awaiting power in exile in France! Winston Chuchill helped the US in their "endeavours". The Prime Minister, Mossadegh's daughter was at the time working as an Au Pair at my Great Aunt's place in London!
Wait, whaaaat? It’s really not that big of a world now is it?
There was a book about this type of world order? Where corporations and business tells govt and militaries what to do. I’m sorry I can not remember right now the book and author who described this in the 30s or 40’s?