Posted on 08/19/2004 2:19:34 PM PDT by quidnunc
Now that the Democratic Party has committed itself to warmed-over Carterism in its platform document, the comically titled "Strong At Home, Respected In The World," and Mickey Kaus has contributed a ringing endorsement worthy of the Man From Malaise ("We survived Carter and we'd survive Kerry"), it is important to remember just what we owe Jimmy Carter: a resurgent global Islamic radicalism, emboldened and directly aided by the Khomeini regime in Iran that he did so much to set in place.
A sobering reminder of just how much Carter is responsible for Iran's now sclerotic but still tenacious mullahocracy comes from Steven F. Hayward of the American Enterprise Institute in his newest book, The Real Jimmy Carter (Regnery, a Human Events sister company).
Modern Islamic radicalism, of course, was born in Egypt in the 1920s, when Hassan Al-Banna founded the Muslim Brotherhood, the primary progenitor of Hamas and Al-Qaeda. And even Al-Banna's movement was a reassertion of the political Islam that dated all the way back to the time of the Prophet Muhammad, and which had just gone into momentary eclipse when the caliphate, the seat of the political/religious successor of Muhammad, was abolished by the secular Turkish government in 1924. Although Islamic radicals achieved many partial successes in the five intervening decades, the Khomeini revolution was the first success of this newly assertive movement on a national scale — and its effects on the global movement have been incalculable.
And Carter was instrumental in this victory.
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Far worse than even Carter.
Carter was a communist sympathizer and handmaiden to communist expansion, who did all he could to make us a full-blown socialist country. He wound up merely destroying our economy and hobbling our national defense capability.
Kerry would be the same multiplied by a factor of ten -- with the added characteristic of being a pathological liar.
Carter: A Peanut in Every Pot
Kerry: A Ketchup Bottle on Every Table
| There's been a lot of this coming out. From Kerry's "misery index" that extolled the wonderful Carter economic miracle, and now this story. Ofcourse, I have a bit of a personal reason for not liking Carter. |
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Mondale II
Quisling.
I really hope oil prices don't hurt the economy enough to make Bush lose. This oil problem has been going on for WAY TOO LONG... More than 30 years already. It's time to bring some sanity to the energy debate... and that goes for both sides IMHO.
Not to guilty of hyperbole, but this could be the most important election of all time.
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All the more reason I don't respect that man in the least. He's "still" our President, and sold us all out for a piece of tainted bronze.
The wrong Carter got elected. Billy would have been much better than Jimmah.
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