Ethics

The Shah of Iran and Islamic Terrorism

By Ed Brayton

The Worldnutdaily has an op-ed by Michael Evans, and since it's a "worldnetdaily exclusive" you can rest assured that it's so mind-numbingly idiotic that they're the only site that would print it. Evens actually blames Jimmy Carter for unleashing Islamic terrorism by not providing enough support to the Shah of Iran. I presume he even wrote it with a straight face.

Few Americans know about the history of American involvement in Iran. Most Americans seem to think that Iran didn't exist until 1979, when they took hostages from the American embassy and held them for months. But there's a long history that precedes that, a history that includes what I consider to be America's most serious cold war blunder. And Evans gets it completely wrong:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 17, 2008 (boomark / email).