WHO CREATED IRAN ?

Although I voted for Jimmy Carter twice, now I consider him one of our worst and most incompetent presidents in American history. I was a delusional Democrat in those days. Having said that even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally. Most of what he did was bad but I will give the devil his due in one area. Carter was able to negotiate an effective peace treaty between Egypt and Israel in 1978 called the Camp David Accords. It was through Carter's persistence that the Israeli prime minister Manachem Begin was able to sign a peace treaty with Egyptian president Anwar Sadat. Sadat was a rarity in the Muslim world. He was a secular Muslim who became a true statesman. A man who was looking out for the interests of Egypt and not Islam. Since Israel's founding in 1948 there had been four major wars between the Arab states and Israel. There had been a major war in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. The Camp David Accords was strategic in the sense that as long as Egypt honored the treaty there would not be another major war in the Middle East. This was because the other Arab states would not attack Israel unless Egypt was part of the alliance. Egypt was the kingpin of any alliance. Militarily they were the strongest of all the Arab nations. Because of this long lasting peace treaty there has not been a war on the scale of the Arab-Israeli conflicts of the past. Unfortunately Sadat was murdered by the radical Islamic group Muslim Brotherhood in 1981 because he dared to negotiate a peace treaty with the "Little Satan" Israel.

The same president who engineered a brilliant peace treaty ending major Middle Eastern wars is the same president who helped create a radical Islamist regime in Iran that has fomented endless terror and violence against America, Israel and the rest of the world. Carter had a so-called human rights foreign policy. Like most Democrats he believed America's interventionist foreign policy of the past was wrong. He believed that we should not be involved in the internal affairs of other countries. So when Daniel Ortega, a Communist, took over as president in Nicaragua he did nothing to intervene. President Reagan would be left with that problem and it inadvertently led to the Iran-Contra scandal. When the Communists tried to do the same thing in Grenada Reagan nipped it in the bud by invading the island. This is one of many reasons why Americans voted to elect Reagan over Carter in 1980. They rejected a hands off approach to foreign policy When the Shah of Iran's regime was being threatened by Islamic radicals Carter also did not intervene. There was a popular uprising against the Shah. His response to the uprising was weak and indecisive. Carter met with the French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and other foreign leaders in Europe. They decided not to get involved in Iran's internal affairs. Over time the Shah was forced to flee Iran. The radical Islamist Ayatolah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in Paris in 1979. He returned as a conquering hero and established the radical Shia Islamic regime that plagues us to this day. 

The Shah, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi had been in power since his father abdicated as King in 1941 because of his pro Nazi stance during WW2. Mohammad led until he was ousted from power by a Marxist prime minister named Mohammed Mosaddegh. The new Iranian leader drove out the British who controlled the Iranian oil fields. The British along with the American CIA engineered a coup which reinstated the Shah as King. In order to maintain power the Shah became more authoritarian. His secret police arrested his political opponents. As bad as it sounds, however; Iranians in general had a pretty good life. There was no Sharia law and the Shah tried to westernize Iran. He did try to reach out to the Islamic elements in Iran as a PR move. Although one can make a solid argument that America and Britain were protecting their economic self interests in 1953 by staging a coup we were fighting a Cold War against the Soviet Union and the Shah was anti-Communist and pro American. We have seen the damage that the Communists have done in this country in recent years and around the world. In 1979 we allowed radical Islam to take over Iran. They immediately stormed our embassy and held our embassy staff as hostages which is a blatant act of war. I believe that Carter's lack of response to thwarting the radical Islamist takeover of Iran was seen as weakness which led to the storming of our embassy. Carter was weak and indecisive handling the hostage crisis. Reagan campaigned against Carter's weak foreign policy and implied that there would be hell to pay if Iran did not release the hostages by the time he took office. Iran released the hostages on Reagan's inauguration day in January 1981. 

  Over the years Iran has called America the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan. They have chanted death to America and Israel since 1979. Iran killed 253 Marines in 1983 and have killed thousands of Americans, Israelis and our allies over the years. Many people worry about war with Iran but they have been at war with us all along. I just learned that President Trump has bombed three separate nuclear sites tonight and it looks to have been very successful. Hopefully, I am not wrong but I don't think Trump will let this get out of hand. Iran is not Iraq and Afghanistan. There is much more potential for reform in Iran. If the Mullah regime falls it It could signal a massive drop in terrorism in Iraq and the Middle East. Even if the regime doesn't fall it might have defanged them. It could increase the number of Muslim countries entering the Abraham Accords and signing peace treaties with Israel. By taking out the nuclear threat Trump can revert back to his policy of strangling Iran's economy again through sanctions and political isolation. Eighty percent of the people are ready to go back to the Iran that was pre 1979. I don't think they want a king again but they do want normalcy. Trump looks at this as an opportunity to end the Iranian nuclear threat once and for all and I think maybe he has.