David Crist > Quotes

“In popular lore, the Iranian arms dealings have been portrayed as rogue policy pursued by the national security staff due to an inattentive president. In truth, the arms-to-Iran initiative continued a five-year-long strategy, one deeply rooted in Cold War fears of revolutionary Iran falling under the Soviet sphere.”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran

“If we fail to act soon we will face an economic, social, and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions.” The looming oil crisis, said Carter in one of the more memorable lines of his presidency, “is the moral equivalent of war.”
― David Crist, The Twilight War: The Secret History of America's Thirty-Year Conflict with Iran