Up until the election of Barack Obama, Jimmy Carter was by far the worst POTUS in US history. Whether it was defense, foreign policy, the economy, etc., pretty much everything Carter did, with the possible exception of the Camp David Accords that had been mostly negotiated already by Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin, was disastrously bad. Carter by his own intent projected an image of weakness, much to America's detriment, the most prominent example being the Iranian seizure of the US embassy in Tehran.
Now, we have
another attack on a US embassy in the Middle East:
Hundreds of Syrian government supporters attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus Monday, smashing windows and spray-painting walls with obscenities and graffiti that called the American ambassador a "dog." Guards at the French Embassy fired in the air to ward off another group of protesters.
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