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Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Absolutely. Many would be radicalized with or without us. But some need that extra push. We are experts at giving that extra push.
The crucial error on our nation's part happened in the 1970s, when the Carter Administration abandoned and betrayed one of the best and most important allies we ever had in the Muslim-dominated world. As a result, the Shah of Iran was overthrown, and that nation taken over by the Khomeniacs. This gave the radical, violent fringes of Islamism the resources of an entire nation at their disposal, and set the stage for all the trouble that we have since had with Islamist terrorism.
The Shah was hated by the MAJORITY of his citizenry.
I'm not certain US support or lack of support was much of a factor.
What do you think JC should have done to prop up the Shah?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?
If it was not the US in the ME, it would have been the Soviets.
Simple question: Has the US Worsened the Spread of Radical Islam?