Nixon Foreign Policy?

Question: Carter/Nixon Foreign Policy!?

How did Jimmy Carter's foreign policy differ from Nixon's foreign policy!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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~Not to cast aspersions on Jimmy Carter's peacemaking successes, it was under his administration that the US began arming, training and otherwise assisting the Islamic Fundamentalists and mujahideen who were crossing the border from Iran into Afghanistan and fomenting rebellion there!. Eventually, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden would recipients of billions of dollars worth of CIA provided weapons, munitions and other military aid!. Carter's policy, through his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and the CIA, was to force the legal government of Afghanistan to seek military assistance and intervention from its ally, the USSR!. When Kabul asked Moscow to send troops and the Soviet Hinds and tanks crossed the Afghan border, Brzezinski bragged in a memo to Carter "We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war!." Years later, he said when asked if he regretted having supported Islamic extremists and terrorists (some of the very people involved in 9/11) "Regret what !.!.!. What is most important to the history of the world!? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire!? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war!?"
By the way, Brzezinski has been hired as a primary consultant on foreign policy and foreign affairs by Barack Obama!. Wonder what job he'll get if Obama is elected!?

Keep in mind that the folks who were being aided by Carter were the same folks who had taken and were holding the embassy hostages at the time!. Regan and Bush would escalate the aid and US involvement in support of the Taliban the Mujahideen, but it all started with Carter!. Of course, had the CIA under Eisenhower not overthrown the democratically elected reform government of Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953 and put the Shah back on the Peacock Throne, then organized, trained and assisted SAVAT in keeping him there, it is doubtful the Fundamentalists would ever have achieved the power and popularity to take over in the first place!. When the CIA trained Saddam and put him on the six man hit squad set up to assassinate Abdul Karim Qassim in Iraq (under Kennedy in 1963) and then installed the Baath party in power there, finally putting Saddam in charge under Johnson and Nixon, it was just icing on the cake for the Fundamentalists!.

Save the thumbs down!. The proof is all there in declassified CIA and US government documents, along with information on about 20 other democratic reform governments around the world that were overthrown by CIA and replaced with bloodthirsty, maniacal madmen and murderers like Somoza, Pinochet, Papa Doc, Suharto, Diem, Marcos and their ilk!.

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Nixon's foreign policy was directed to end the conflict with honor in Vietnam, focus attention our Cold War adversary Soviet Union---as well as developing ties with China-----whereas Carter's ONLY foreign policy objective was to "keep the peace" in the Middle East---and keep the Arms Reduction Treaties rolling with the Soviets (his only success really was the Camp David Accords)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com