• @DxKOP
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    5 months ago

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

    • @anticolonialist
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      -435 months ago

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

      • @Fedizen
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        265 months ago

        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.

        • @anticolonialist
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          -85 months ago

          Carter gave birth to the Mujahideen, which became Taliban and Al-Qaeda

          • @rottingleaf
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            25 months ago

            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.

      • @bitwaba
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        205 months ago

        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.

          • @rottingleaf
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            35 months ago

            They were chill. They may be the reason Pakistan and Taliban are weaker today than they could be, not stronger.

      • @madcaesar
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        135 months ago

        Tell me you know nothing about history in one sentance challenge: Success