Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "What Would Have Happened To Iran If President Nixon Stayed In Office?" video.

  1. Okay Dick, I'll grant ya the point that Carter was inept and the wrong guy to handle Iran or any other global problem for that matter. But ya can't say "I would have stopped the Shah from being overthrown" without explaining how you would have done it. What was the plan? Send in American troops? The Shah was already getting a sh*tpot bunch of cash to prop up his military and police forces. What was the next step to keep him going? And people knew all about Khomeini. This stuff about finding out what he was about? Hell, the man had been producing media pimping the Islamic state since the 1960s. The moderates in Iran were the ones who made a deal with the devil and got into bed with him, figuring they could use him to whip up public support while they charted a more reasonable path. Well you lie in bed with dogs as the old saying goes. The Shah was going down and there was nothing the U.S. could do to stop it. Carter should have shut the embassy down after the first time the loonies stormed it but he kept it open like a big kick me target. It was Kissinger, Nixon's soulmate, who invited the major-league level trouble when he pushed Carter to let the Shah in at a time when anyone with two functioning brain cells knew that was like throwing gas on a gas-fire already burning like nine sonsabitches. Sorry, maybe it's not the most popular take on this page but Nixon was playing Joe Montana level Monday morning quarterback on this one. Carter made a lot of mistakes and by the sound of it Nixon would have made the same or worse. Nixon has this rep for being some genius on the world stage but Reagan saw his Détente strategy with the Soviets for what it was, a one-way street where they got to break every agreement and America just said, "uh, okay." He went directly against it and kicked their commie asses inside of a decade. And Nixon's grand opening of China? His big foreign policy trophy? Well we see what kind of fruit that has produced. Nixon was smart, but not as smart as he thought he was. If he was he would have burned the tapes. Just sayin.
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