From WSJopinion: Jimmy Carter’s name remains a synonym for weakness. For Biden and his team the analogies to Jimmy Carter and the Iranian hostage crisis might be even more unsettling than the parallels to the fall of Saigon, writes wjmcgurn
For President Biden and his team, the analogies to President Carter and the Iranian hostage crisis might be even more unsettling than the obvious parallels to the 1975 fall of Saigon they are working so hard to deny.
headline two weeks before the election summed up the Iranian crisis as “a metaphor for American weakness.”wanted out and negotiated a deal with the Taliban. But Mr. Biden is president, and the problem isn’t simply the withdrawal but the shockingly naive way he carried it out. All done, moreover, so he could score political points by using the coming 20th anniversary of 9/11 to portray himself as the man who ended America’s longest war.
Weakness unfortunately begets weakness, and Mr. Carter’s problem wasn’t limited to the Iranian students. Everyone walked all over him. Less than two months after the students had taken the Americans hostages, the Soviet Union surprised Mr. Carter by their Christmas Eve invasion of Afghanistan.
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