And while the Shah was a dictator and had his secret police, his radical Muslim replacements are dictators and have their religious police.
Do you actually believe that more people were tortured/killed under the Shah than under the religious fanatics that replaced him?

And do you understand that, at least, under the Shah we had some influence and were pushing his government towards democracy?

Do you remember it was Carter whose failure to support the Shah created modern day radical Muslims and their terrorism supporting states?

Do you understand that we used Iraq to keep Iran from taking control of the oil in the Iraq and then the SA peninsula?

Would you have preferred we let Iran have control of what was then a huge percentage of the world's oil supplies?

Or would you have preferred we used our military, and perhaps nuclear weapons, to stop the Iranians?

Maybe we should not have given the Taliban weapons to defend themselves against the Soviets and bleed the Evil Empire a bit. But I seem to remember we were weak and actually had "trip wire" divisions in Europe that were expected to fight and die when the Soviet's attacked while we brought up reinforcements.

Do you remember that it was our refusal to go along with the English that allowed Egypt to survive as an independent country? How, much did Kosovo cost us and how many Muslim lives were saved? Do you know we were in Lebanon on a peace keeping mission?

And have you forgotten that Israel was attacked by its Muslim neighbors within hours of its independence? Are you aware that none of the Muslim neighbors have ever been willing to accept immigrants? And that Israel has never been the first to innate hostilities?

Have you forgotten the agreements, sponsored by Clinton, that gave the PLO 90% of what they wanted....and were then rejected by the PLO?

Have you read that it was Saddam who claimed the right to invade Kuwait and threaten Saudi Arabia over his desire to have more oil and more control over the west? And that after agreeing to the terms of his defeat how he kept violating them? How he corrupted the "oil for peace" UN officials and starved his nation's children? How he violated the weapons agreements, rattled his swords and, we now know, planned to get back into the WMD business as soon as possible?

Did we cause Munich? The Rome Airport? The highjacked TWA flight? The 'Achille Lauro'? WTC in '93? USS Cole? The attempt at blowing up LAX? The German nightclub? Pan Am 103? Were we right to not respond vigorously to these attacks? Or wrong to encourage more by our lack of action?

Monday morning quarterbacking is fine but it is always helpful to remember that the QB's choices were limited and that maybe throwing a 60 yard interception was better than taking a sack on his own 20 yard line.  At least in the first case the defense had a chance to make a play or two.

Now we have benched the football players in favor of letting the cheerleaders meet with the other side and apologize.