Letters to the Editor
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@infidel
You owe this country an apology for voting for Reagan.
First, Carter's plan for energy independence before he was derailed by the massive right-wing media assault against him.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carter/filmmore/ps_crisis.html
What actually happened during the 444 days of the Iranian hostage crisis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis
what happened during the 10 years of continuous hostage crisis during Reagan/Bush 1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanon_Hostage_Crisis
Reagan freed some hostages by secretly trading arms to Iran, others were killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair
Reagan the "teflon" president because, then, as now, the media such as ABC relentlessly attacks Democrats while letting far worse crimes by Republicans slide off (why are we talking so much about Wright and not about Hagee?) Overall, looking back, there really is no comparison between Carter's handling of the middle east and Reagan's. Carter was far and away better and much more representative of America's ideals.
By the way, Carter only had 4 years, and spent most of that time trying to clean up after 8 years of Nixon/Ford mismanagement that led to the economic mess in the first place that you remember so well. But simple minded fools like you were impressed by an actor's tough guy rhetoric. Meanwhile, any progress in Palestine had to wait 12 years until another Democrat got into office.
Russia considers Afghanistan their Vietnam... a mess they wish they never had gotten involved in... our meddling really didn't make much difference to them.
As for Saudi Arabia, I would make them as much of a pariah as we made South Africa during Apartheid for starters. And demand them to hand over Osama's head, since he is one of their own after all as a minimum before we have any further dealings with them in any way, shape or form.