Jay Honeck wrote in news:1194473157.386541.84410
@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com:

Alas, Jimmy Carter had the chance to fix this problem way back in
1979...
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Yeah, but whiney assholes like you stoped that, didncha?

In 1979 I was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin, majoring in
English at the time. Even then, as a young, idealistic left-leaning
college student, I knew that the peanut farmer from Georgia was
screwing the pooch with Iran.

If Carter had done something -- ANYTHING -- to right the hostage
crisis, our current situation with radical Islam would be very
different. Instead, he did...worse than nothing, and 28 years later
we're facing a nuclear-armed Iran, run by the same idiots that hog-
tied our diplomats for over 440 days.
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A paraphrase, Can't remember if it's Huxley, Orwell or Wells, but if
serious history ceases to be taught and the pursuit of the trivial by an
otherwise sophisticated society is central to a society, then they are
truly lost.


This being usenent, I'm sure someone will correct me, but it won't be you,
methinks.


Bertie