Jimmy Carter Says He’s Hanging On to Vote for Kamala Harris

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Jimmy Carter Says He’s Hanging On to Vote for Kamala Harris
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“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

He also planted seeds in the ME that has allowed the US to always have an unstable relationship in the region

Ronald Reagan prolonged the Iran hostage crisis and then resolved it by selling weapons to Iran - which was illegal. Its a great tragedy that Ronald Reagan wasn't prosecuted for treason.

Carter gave birth to the Mujahideen, which became Taliban and Al-Qaeda

That's incorrect. Mojaheds were a group of Muslim-Socialist democratic parties. The only thing in common between them is using weapons.

Unless you call everybody US armed Mojaheds.

The creation of Israel, and the US aided Iranian coup of 1953 both happened a couple decades before Carter.

Those seeds were planted and had been growing for a while.

He planted the seeds that created the Mujahideen

They were chill. They may be the reason Pakistan and Taliban are weaker today than they could be, not stronger.