By: Cliff Kincaid
Under Democrat President Jimmy Carter, we lost Iran to the Shiite Mullahs and had gas lines in America. Under President Trump, there are no gas lines, and the remaining Mullahs fear for their lives and are stalling until the final victory by America over their brand of revolutionary Islam is achieved. But we are hearing constant moans and groans about higher gas prices, which are still lower than they were under Democrat Sleepy Joe Biden ($5.02 a gallon in June 2022).
Here is what AI tells us:
“Gas lines during the Jimmy Carter presidency peaked in 1979 as part of the broader 1979 oil crisis. Triggered by the Iranian Revolution, which disrupted global oil supplies and caused panic buying, the shortages brought immense gridlock and frustration to American motorists.”
I was in Washington, D.C. at the time, covering the end of the Carter presidency and the rise of Ronald Reagan, who won in 1980 and 1984.
Many young people today have no memory or even understanding of what the Iranian revolution did to America and the world. Almost 50 years later, Trump is doing something about it.
Our biased media constantly talk about higher prices during the war on Iran under Trump, but fail to remind the American people about the causes.
Carter’s presidency was considered incompetent, but there was an anti-American strategy behind the Iranian revolution.
In noteworthy comments published in the Marxist Monthly Review, leftist attorney Lynne Stewart, who represented the blind sheik, terrorist cleric Omar Abdel-Rahman, said that radical Islamists are basically forces of national liberation, and she emphasized how they could take down governments in the Middle East.
Stewart, convicted and imprisoned for providing illegal support to foreign Islamic terrorists, said: “To denigrate them [Islamists] as right-wing, I don’t think is proper. My own sense is that, were the Islamists to be empowered, there would be movements within their own countries, such as occurs in Iran, to liberate.”
Their target at the time was Egypt, when the Obama administration shifted its stance from supporting the Hosni Mubarak regime to supporting the Muslim Brotherhood. A military coup led by General El-Sisi on July 3, 2013, ended their reign, and the Muslim Brotherhood was banned. Egyptian-Americans protested Obama’s policy during 2013 and also protested sympathetic Washington Post coverage of the terror group.
Similarly, Iranian-Americans want the Mullahs replaced while Marxist Democrats want them to remain in power, in order to accelerate their plans to destroy Israel and moderate Arab regimes.
Historically, the record is clear: Jimmy Carter abandoned the Shah of Iran, a key U.S. ally at the time, which allowed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to take power and establish an anti-American state subservient to Russia and China.
But Jimmy Carter’s big “contributions” to America’s history and destiny went beyond that debacle. He played patty-cake with the dictator of Communist North Korea. The latter led to the eventual emergence of another communist nation capable of hitting the United States with nuclear weapons.
In addition to giving away the Panama Canal, Carter “normalized” diplomatic relations between the United States and Communist China in 1979, throwing the Republic of China on Taiwan, a democracy, under the bus. No one knows when Red China will invade the peaceful country, another potential disaster that Trump must now deal with.
On top of these betrayals, he facilitated the communist takeover of Nicaragua in Central America in 1979, giving his successor, Reagan, another foreign policy mess to deal with. When Reagan authorized support for Nicaraguan freedom fighters, Democrats threatened to impeach him over the “Iran-Contra affair,” a reference to the president’s successful efforts to free American hostages in the Middle East.
Jimmy Carter’s disastrous economic policies, including gas lines and double-digit inflation, did enormous damage. I bought my first house when his economic policies had not yet been diffused by President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts, and the mortgage interest rate was then over 16 percent.
By any objective analysis, President Trump inherited a mess, and he could have already dug America out of the rubble if it had not been for the stolen election of 2020 and the impact of the China virus.
He is back in charge today, but the media and their allies in the Democratic Party do not want to remind America of the damage inflicted on our nation by left-wing policies at home and abroad. They have TDS and blame Trump for the failures of Democrat policies.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. usasurvival.org
