Thatlongodysseyis notso in theworldof bin Laden or anIranian theocrat — or the ignorantwho stream out of the madrassasandFridayfundamentalist harangues along the Afghan-Pakistaniborder.
The way that Carter left the Shah of Iran to flap in the breeze and eventually to be swept out of Iran by Khomeini and his band of not-so-merry fundamentalist pranksters hardly inspired confidence in the U.S. by the petro-wealthy of the Arab world.