Debacle: The American Failure in Iran
President Carter and his Administration are charged with failures of perception, naïveté about the Ayatollah Khomeini, inconsistency and confusion. The authors seem to realize that it is not possible to say with certainty what policy would have averted the "debacle," but they do believe the Administration should have been more supportive of the Shah.
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