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In reply to the discussion: Presidents should be questioned and confronted, not idolized [View all]mrchips
(97 posts)His initial response was non military aid. The mujahideen used old weapons against a heavily armed Soviet aggression. By January 1981, Carter was out. It was not until the stingers and more sophisticated weaponry was sent in under Raygun that the tide turned. If Carter had acted more decisively, he would have been accused of distracting from the hostage crisis in Iran. As it was, he was blasted by republicans for the boycott. This thread began as an attack against Carter for being a military adventurist. He was not. When he did make an attempt to use military force to get the hostages out, tragedy occurred and republicans who were making secret deals with the ayatollah, just eviscerated him. Nice to see democrats on this site join the rethuglicans in bashing yet another democratic president. You must be so proud.