Posted on 05/14/2004 9:41:40 AM PDT by Akira
To ensure that additional human rights embarrassments will not befall the United States, we must examine well-known, high-level and broad-based U.S. policies that have lowered our nation's commitment to basic human rights.
Immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, many traumatized and fearful U.S. citizens accepted Washington's new approach with confidence that our leaders would continue to honor international agreements and human rights standards.
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Im getting to where I despise this clown as much as Clinton.
I should have heeded the "BARF alert." Jimmy Carter is always successful...............at turning me into a vomit catapult.
Maybe he wasn't - people did a lot of drugs in the 70's, and that **** messes up your memory.
Jimmy Carter's administration started the rise of terrorism.
Repeat:
Jimmy Carter's administration started the rise of terrorism.
The naive and inept philosophy in foreign affairs top to bottom in that administration led directly to rise of the terrorist sanctuary of Iran, and invigorated terrorism worldwide.
Books are being written about it, but it will take another twenty years to fully comprehend the complete and devastating effects this "very well intentioned" man, with his cronys, brought upon the world.
Most of my AF time was while he was president. Those of us who understood the world realized at the time how badly that philosophy was, and we didn't hide our disagreement. The voters just wanted somebody other than Nixon, though. The touchy-feely mushy middle voters gave helped give us today's problems.
Cowboys make the best American Presidents.
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At least Clinton had a likeable rogue aspect. Carter was nothing much when elected, and has become little more than a senile meddler. Were he to espouse conservative causes, he would have NO media exposure at all.
I wonder if Carter chastized Janet Reno for her foolish leadership.
Ted Kennedy doesn't seem to have criticized Reno for the preventable deaths of the children at Waco.
What a pefect description of Carter.
He is a clown and I despise him too!
Jimmy Carter ......
Elected in the post-Watergate days....
Ousted from office after one term in one of the largest landslides in our history, depite actively seeking help from the Soviets to get re-elected.
And has since: (1)actively tried to dissuade coalition partners from participating in Gulf War I; (2) acted as a self-appointed ambassador to both North Korea and Cuba; (3)never met a terrorist he didn't like (Yassir Arafat mainly). His term of 1976 - 1980 was the nadir of the last sixty years of our nation.
In several ways, Carter was quite like Qerry and the 'Toon
I was heavily into politics even back then, and one of my constant observations during the campaign was that he constantly shifted positions and told each audience what they wanted to hear. I could not believe that the sheeple didn't realize that he had just stated the opposite position a few weeks ago, and that they didn't take him to task for him at the ballot (or the polls.)
In addition, Carter's military service did nothing to help him understand the reality of the world. He never outgrew his blind, and elementary-school interpretation, of the "turn the other cheek" passages of the Bible. He never has understood that the Western view of life is not the same view as that espoused in much of the rest of the world. (Of course, abortion is another subject, so let's leave the US positions there out of this discussion)
Jimmy Carter is a "good man", and I would estimate (though it is not my call) a "good Christian". He was not a good person to be voted as President, and he didn't have the friends to call on to help him be even adequate, as some former presidents had.
He was really an old lady in drag.
It was Carter's refusal forcibly to confront Khomeini after he seized our diplomats that has led to all this mess. Nothig is more pitiful than the former military officer who has turned pacifist.
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