• DxK@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 months ago

    “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

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      He also planted seeds in the ME that has allowed the US to always have an unstable relationship in the region

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        Ronald Reagan prolonged the Iran hostage crisis and then resolved it by selling weapons to Iran - which was illegal. Its a great tragedy that Ronald Reagan wasn’t prosecuted for treason.

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            That’s incorrect. Mojaheds were a group of Muslim-Socialist democratic parties. The only thing in common between them is using weapons.

            Unless you call everybody US armed Mojaheds.

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        The creation of Israel, and the US aided Iranian coup of 1953 both happened a couple decades before Carter.

        Those seeds were planted and had been growing for a while.