Monday, August 25, 2008

Jimmah: Unable To Distinguish


but not before it paved the way for the removal of the Shah and the
installation of Khomeni in Iran. Andrew Young, the Carter-appointed United
States Ambassador to the United Nations, described Khomeini as “some kind of
saint.”

As href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/4884331.html">Matthias
Küntzel recalls, Young was not alone in his disposition toward Khomeni.
Carter administration National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was also
favorably disposed toward Khomeni, since he seemed to Brzezinski to represent an
effective barrier against Soviet influence. “We can get along with Khomeini!”
was the motto in that summer of 1979. We contend with the consequences even
today.

Quoted by Horowitz and Johnson, Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan provided the
most href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2006/12/13/cstillwell.DTL">trenchant
critique of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy. Moynihan said of Carter in 1980:
"Unable to distinguish between our friends and our enemies, he has essentially
adopted our enemies' view of the world."

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