No one man has ever done as much damage to the United States and the world than James Earl Carter Junior, the Peanut farmer from Georgia.
You might say it all started with the downfall of Richard Nixon. This occurred, not because G Gordon Liddy and his friends broke into the Watergate apartments and stole some secret papers from the Democrat National Committee, but because Nixon helped cover up that fiasco. I was no great fan of Gerald Ford, the vice President who took over from Nixon. He seemed an awkward caricature of a stumbling fill-in for President. But he was a nice guy and undoubtedly a patriot. As the election process wore on, I had no choice but to vote for Gerald, the football player, against Jimmy the Peanut Farmer.
During the summer of 1976, I was travelling in Europe and the Middle East and, as an American I was asked everywhere I went who I thought would be the next President of the United States. My answer never wavered. “The American people are not stupid.” I said, “They would never elect Carter”.
As you now know I was wrong. But little did I realize at the time just how bad Carter would be for America and the whole world, and how his actions would change history and bring America down 36 years later.
It soon became evident that the peanut farmer and Baptist Sunday school teacher was a socialist who wanted to bring the United States into the community of nations as an equal with Uganda and Romania and strip her of her leadership position in the world. Hussein Obama, allegedly the first Kenyan President of the United States, is merely completing the job Carter started. Among Carter’s “accomplishments” was giving away the Panama Canal and the establishment of diplomatic relations with Communist China. The former made America lose face in the world. The latter eventually caused the destruction of the economy of the United States and made China a world power to be feared. And now ironically, the Chinese Communists own both ends of the Panama Canal and most of the United States too.
Carter’s treatment of the Shah of Iran
But Carter’s treatment of the Shah of Iran was his crowning achievement in his war against the United States and the stability of the world as a whole.
In 1901, a British Millionaire negotiated with Shah Mozzafar al-Din to allow him to prospect for oil in Persia for 60 years. In exchange, the Shah received about $2 million and 16% of future profits. The actual discovery of the first oil field was in 1908 and from then on Iran became the world’s top producer of oil with various European nations and the United States joining the British in running, and tapping the profits from, the oil fields. But at the same time the economy of Persia soared. True the Shah became rich. But he also cared for his people.
In the fifties American relations with Iran grew stronger and more confident under the Shah’s son who succeeded him. They courted the younger Shah as he continued to make Iran free and prosperous and at the same time made the United States more prosperous than ever. It was a win-win situation for the leaders and the people of both countries. In 1964 President Lyndon Johnson declared “What is going on in Iran is about the best thing going on anywhere in the World.” The trade in oil to fuel American motor cars caused a great deal of the prosperity that helped the United States recover from the war and take her place and the leader of the free world.
In the 1970s the Shah’s wise rule brought Iran to the position of being a power for good in the Middle East. His European education caused him to want to keep the Muslim clerics at bay and enact several modernizing changes in the age-old system of the country. These included rights for women and for ethnic and religious minorities and would probably have continued into a state of full democracy. But this infuriated the Islamic Fundamentalists who wanted to keep their chokehold on Iranian life. The Shah’s only recourse was to buy arms from the British and Americans and build the world’s fifth strongest army which by 1976 boasted 3,000 tanks, nearly 1,000 helicopters and 200 very modern fighter aircraft.
The American administrations of Nixon and Ford stood shoulder to shoulder with the Shah in his fight to put down Islamic rebellions and offered him everything but nuclear weapons. Jimmy Carter toasted the Shah during a Tehran State visit on New Year’s Eve 1977 and declared that Iran was “an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world.” Yet, even before that, the Carter administration had been undermining the Shah’s regime by demanding that he make major reforms immediately and not wait for more stability.
It was said that the Shah’s prisons contained as many as 3,000 political prisoners and that many of them were tortured. Yet loose on the streets they would have brought his reforms and human rights achievements in the country crashing down with an unspeakable Islamic revolution. He was forced to rule with strength and determination for the sake of the whole free world. But Carter did not have the intellectual ability to understand such things. He just thought that everybody should be nice and make friends. Eventually by use of threats to curtail aid payments and arms Carter forced the Shah to release many radical fundamentalists and terrorists from his prisons and they quickly came together to form the mob who finally brought down the Pavlavi dynasty and replaced it with the terrorist leaders we see today in Iran. Soon the mob of terrorists had multiplied so many times it was impossible for the Shah to continue to govern and he was forced to step down.
Then, with no leader to stand up against terrorist chaos came the hostage crisis in which 52 Americans (many of them Embassy personnel) were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981. The whole world knew that Carter would never stand up to the Muslim mob in Tehran but the day before Ronald Reagan became President and Carter left the White House, the mob let the hostages go. They knew a real president in the United States would never stand for what weak-kneed Carter had allowed.
Worldwide revolution of fundamentalist Islam
But Carter’s moral weakness not only unleashed the horror of the present regime in Iran. He also began the worldwide revolution of fundamentalist Islam on the rest of the world. The so-called Arab Spring was born in Tehran and spread underground to the rest of the Arab, Muslim world, only to surface recently in many unfortunate countries.
It can be argued that all of these Muslim Kings and Presidents were harsh rulers and had little mercy in dealing with rebellions. But what choice did they have? Most of them were friends to the West and they kept the lid on the Muslim, terrorist world take-over for many years. Now there is nothing to stop it.
Coming soon – Is the Islamic World takeover almost complete? Is there anything we can do to stop it? Why do they want to take over the World anyway?
David Rushton was born in London where his parents were staunch conservatives. He immigrated to the United States in the sixties and formed a patriotic organization advocating conservative principles which include rallies and marches. He had his own radio talk show for many years and was also a guest on many radio and Television talk shows.
In the last few years David wrote several books about the dangers of radical Islam and spoke on this subject in some of the largest Conservative Churches in the United States.
He now resides with his wife Marcia in Costa Rica.
