by NORMAN SIMMS:
Ruthie Blum's essential book "To Hell in a Handbasket- Carter, Obama and the Arab Spring" offers irrefutable evidence that misguided foreign policy with respect to popular uprisings against tyrants often creates worse problems than those it seeks to alleviate.
While most commentators and pundits stress the present crisis with a nuclear Iran, they fail to see the overthrow of Iran's Shah and the subsequent hostage crisis of 1979 as prologue and lesson for today.
Carter, Obama, and the Arab Spring’ (By Ruthie Blum)
"...irrefutable evidence that misguided foreign policy..."
