i mean, if it wasnt for him then they wouldnt have tooken americans hostage in 1979. he didnt have to support the shah and get involved.its their buisness not ours. by doing so he just made enemies.whats your opinoin on this?
2007-04-02 07:50:49 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
sorry for my bad grammer " taken"
2007-04-02 07:59:16 · update #1
All Carter did was perform a humanitarian act by letting the Shah come to the US for cancer treatment. It was hardly a reason for the Iranians to take hostages.
2007-04-02 07:56:07 · answer #1 · answered by quest for truth gal 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
World politics are far, far more complicated than that, my dear.
The US involvement with Iran goes back decades before 1979, long before Carter, and has its roots in the Cold War. The US supported many unsavory rulers during that time, to prevent them from becoming allied with the Soviet Union. Many unscrupulous leaders played the US and the USSR off each other like this, basically selling themselves to the highest bidder - their allegience in return for arms, financial aid, looking the other way with regard to human rights violations, whatever. The history of this kind of foreign involvement in Iran became the focus of a huge backlash in Tehran in 1979, after their Islamic "revolution" threw the Shah out.
Jimmy Carter was just the president on whose watch this occurred, and he did his best to deal with it. The US tried to set up ties to the new government. After the hostages were taken, Carter tried a military rescue operation, which failed.
Iran is a hardline, extremist, totalitarian state, run by religious zealots. They would be the enemy of the US - or any western country - regardless of anything one of our presidents did. That kind of religious mindset abhors the freedoms and excesses we have here in the west, and they deeply resent the west's power. There was no avoiding this crisis.
2007-04-02 14:55:31 · answer #2 · answered by Steven D 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was Kissinger and Nixon that supported the Shah. Then the revolution. Then the kidnapping. Then Carter tried to snatch them, but the copter crashed. Then Regan make an arms deal with them to get them back. This is the Iran-Contra scandal.
Carter did what seemed best about our hostages, and it would have worked, but he wasn't the copter maintenance guy or the pilot....and that's the truth.
2007-04-02 14:56:59 · answer #3 · answered by sonyack 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is the real reason for the war in Iraq. Think about it. He made the Muslims hate us and think we were weak and now look. He is a real meathead. I think we should just bomb the place with nucks.
2007-04-02 15:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Oil.
2007-04-02 14:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Puppy Zwolle 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Tooken"???
2007-04-02 14:57:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋