Iran's Seyyeds'/Theocrats' man advises Obama

Brzezinski bears more responsibility for the fact that the Iranian people are subjected to — and everyone else in the world is threatened by — an authoritarian Islamist regime than any single Westerner besides, perhaps, ex-President Carter. Eleven years ago, Brzezinski revealed the gaping breach in his brain through which the mullahs poured in 1979.

I suppose he thought that a Shah Abbas type of Iran was better, with Shiite doctrines being able to fend of USSR.

How naïve was Carter?

Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty.

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Can you believe that Carter & company were so naïve?