Lee Boyland
2007-02-10 18:44:33
The Feb 07 “The American Legion” has an excellent article by Dinesh D’Souza, How We Lost Iran. The Shah was attempting to drag a backward culture into the 20th Century. By contrast, Ayatollah Khomeini took them back to the 7th Century. Khomeini’s revolution restored power to the clerics and fanned the smoldering ashes of radical Islam into a raging fire that swept across the Middle East. One immediate effect (other than the hostage taking in Tehran) was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. Ayatollah Khomeini turned the dogs of jihad loose and President Carter held the gate open for them. It is going require a mighty effort to send them back to Hell.
