Re: Who was worst in foreign relations: Carter or G.W. Bush?
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This won't be close. The Iranian hostage crisis was instigated by the CIA's coup of Iran's Democracy. Carter had nothing to do with that, and he came far closer to bringing peace between Israel and Palestine than anyone since.
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This is true only in the most tenuous of ways and shows a complete lack of knowledge of the Iranian Revolution. The proximate cause of the hostage crisis was Carter's admission of the Shah to the U.S. for cancer treatment and his refusal to turn him over to Iran for trial and execution.
Besides which, we see what a wonderful job the clerics have done in restoring "Iranian Democracy" in the past 28 years. You'd have thought they'd have time to do that by now.
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