We just don’t get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess.

The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.

(Also taken from the blog post.)

One little mentioned aspect of the whole transition from Shah to Khomeni (sp?..I don't care) is the fact that Vance, under the direction on Carter, selected Dutch Huyser, DCINCEUR and friend of many of the Iranian General Staff, to travel to Iran in advance of the Ayotollah's return to convince the Iranian military leaders to remain calm and not stage a coup when the Shah was gone.  The first thing AK did upon his return was to arrest and execute all the top leaders in the Iranian military and neither Carter nor Vance lifted a finger or even said a thing.  They not only betrayed Huyser, they allowed a lot of our best allies to be executed.