Investor's Business Daily: Carter Planted Seeds Of Al-Qaida

"Carter had the perfect 'anti-slogan' for a post-Watergate presidential campaign: 'I will never lie to you.'

Unfortunately, Carter based America's relationship with the Soviet Union on the delusion that the Russians would never lie to him. He infamously expressed shock that Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev lied to him during a 'hot line' phone call following the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

President Jimmy Carter and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev exchanged American-style handshakes and Russian-style embraces on June 19, 1979, after signing the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) Agreement. Six months later, the U.S.S.R. invaded Afghanistan.But signals of weakness to the communists from the worst, most naïve president in American history began days after inauguration:

• 'As I understand your highly important speech in Tula, the Soviet Union will not strive for superiority in arms,' Carter wrote Brezhnev in January 1977, less than a week after his inauguration. "

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