Quote Originally Posted by AdmiralAdama View Post
Absolutely. Although Jimmy Carter was a terrible president and an even worse ex-President, the forces of Shi'ite radical fundamentalism were operating as history sometimes does, as a grand, almost inevitable wave.
Not quite what I was saying, Admiral. Iran/Persia as a pendulum history of the secular versus the non-secular, state versus clergy. That is not the same as a grand inevitable wave as in tsunami.

Tom