The political fallout from Dasht-e-Kavir
"The worse I do, the more popular I get," mused President John F. Kennedy, baffled by his spurt in the polls after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Can Jimmy Carter make political gains from a military misfortune? The consensus among political experts is that he may in the short run because the country tends to rally round a President in a crisis, even a crisis that he has caused. But on reflection the voters are likely to conclude that once again Carter has failed. Said Theodore Lowi, a political...
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