Carter is normally seen my the Republcians as the worst president in modern history. Why? Because Radical Islam suppossedly “began” with the ousting of the Shah and the hostage crisis and this happened on his watch. Funny how the Bush Administration failing to act on reports before 9/11 allowed him to reap a second term rather than receiving any blame for that Islamic plot unfolding “on his watch.” Or was it that Carter didn’t “back the Shah.”? Actually, he did allow that brutal dictator to come to the U.S. to receive the best medical treatment that money can buy. That’s actually what caused the hostage crisis in the first place. There was also the failed mission to rescue the hostages in which 8 servicemen died, but one failed mission hardly compares to a failed war. It seems more like the real reason was Carter didn’t declare war on Iran for daring to overthrow the tyrannical dictator than the U.S. had installed over their Prime Minister because he had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian oil company (which today we call BP). Sure, the Shah was dying, but maybe Carter should have continued the suppression of Democracy in Iran and install another Big Oil puppet with the title of an ancient Persian dictator. Or maybe Eisenhower should not have allowed anti-Communist sentiment to ally with British to bring about the deposition of a democratically elected official of a foreign country for the sake of western oil companies?