Iraq war boosted Islamic extremist threat- Carter

Reuters ^ | August 12, 2005 | Staff

[RightWhale]

I don't know which former Pres is winning the worst-of-all-time contest, but some candidates are still in the running.

[MNJohnnie]

Then let him stick to that and leave off the moralizing about something he is largely to blame for.

No argument here

Sorry, didn't mean to vent on you. But this little bit of "Leftist" wisdom drives me nuts. "Fighting the Terrorist is breeding Terrorists" I would of thought after 9-11 the Hysteric Left would have the deceny to sit down and shut up so we could get on with the job of saving Civilization AGAIN.

[Paladin2]

Didn't Jimma' give the Panama Canal to China?

And what about Jimmah's support for Castro? What a humanitarian. He needs to knock back a few Billy Beers and give it a rest.

[Tarpon]

Did you know, they had to put a rabbit detector and rabbit repellent on the USS Jimmuh Carter. Seems the rabbits wanted to mate with the sub

Reagan gets a 1,000 foot nuclear powered carrier, Jimmuh gets a sub. Sounds fine with me, that way we won't have to look at it much :)

[ncountylee]

Unfortunately, both are considered capital ships. Jimmy deserved a garbage scow!

[HangnJudge]

I don't know which former Pres is winning the worst-of-all-time contest, but some candidates are still in the running.

I'd probably vote Herbert Hoover, similar to Jimmy Carter in many ways

President Hoover was an ideologue. He was a morally upright person. But he was incompetent. He was unable to look squarely at reality. When the economy collapsed, President Hoover assured the people that everything would be all right. He said there had been little reform in government prior to his inauguration. He said that the final victory over poverty was at hand. Self-importance and incompetence - that was the combination that led to Mr. Hoover's being remembered as one of the three worst presidents in U.S. history.

[TheDon]

Another Rat traitor. What a surprise.

[carlr]

"because it would lead to a "debacle" in the Middle Eastern nation.

Well at least that is something Jimmuh would know about.

[HangnJudge]

Sorry, didn't mean to vent on you

No offense intended or taken.
I find his peculiar juxtaposition of moral strength, intelligence, and complete lack of common sense galling also
as well as his incredible ability to filter his awareness of history

[RightWhale]

Yeah, there have been several Presidents who came in with excellent credentials and couldn't meet a new outside threat. Too much success in academia [Hoover, Wilson] can do that. Lack of theoretical background [Grant, Andy Jackson] can also do that. Somebody that can get down and slug it out in the muck like TR and Lincoln and also can write papers capable of being published in academic journals like Jefferson might be a good enough balance. Know anybody like that?

[liberty2004]

God may forgive him but I won't!

Exactly how I feel. That little man has done tremendous damage to our wonderful Republic. That little evil man hates everything this country stands for. I will NEVER ever forgive him for his purposefully evil actions.

[libstripper]

He's the guy who created the threat by allowing and encouraging Khomeni and the mullahs to take over Iran and overthrow the Shah. Fine man to be talking.

[citizencon]

The abandonment of the Shah in the 70's by the Carter administration gave rise to Islamo-fascism.
Carter is too senile to remember that.

[cake_crumb]

"From a CINC whose efforts to rescue the hostages in Iran ended in wreckage and dead men in the desert."

OIperatrion Helicopter Crash. We remember it well, and still thank the Canadian troops who risked everything to save our embarrassed US bacon.

[cake_crumb]

"President Hoover was an ideologue. He was a morally upright person"

Jimmy Carter's an idealogue, all right : he sees the world through the eyes of Marx and Mao. He hates the idea of ideological freedom, He believes knowlege is dangerous and should be controlled. He's Evil. Sure he bumbles around and talks and acts stupid...so does Bill Clinton. But trust me, bumbling evil is no less evil than competent evil. They KNOW that they're doing when they're working to destroy freedom. They're doing their jobs.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Oh Peanuts Jimmah...

Doesn't he have some invasive Royal Empress Trees to go Plant?

[doberville]

"Carter is an even bigger anus than I had given him credit for."

Carter the Anus gives an entirely new meaning to the expression 'Rhoid Rage'.

[kromike]

My question to Mr. (ahem) Carter would be this: "So, what is your suggestion to a solution? Negotiation? Surrender?"

Mr. Carter, would you prefer that we wait until several major cities are smouldering nuke waste dumps before we take these insane bastards seriously?

Mr. Carter, just how many American lives are you willing to sacrifice to your obsession with peace-at-any-cost?

[Real Cynic No More]

What really boosted Muslim violence was Carter's ineptness in dealing with the hostage situation when he, unfortunately, was president (with a small "p"), combined with the later parries that terrorists made with the various embassy bombings and we did nothing about going after the perpetrators. This was exacerbated with the first trade center bombing when we treated the front line attackers as criminals instead of recognizing them for what they were. And then Black Hawk Down happened when we turned tail and ran.

The same thing is happening in Gaza right now where the Palestinians are emboldened and stating that they ran Israel out with their RPG and rocket attacks. Every sign of weakness just emboldens them more. That is why we cannot now leave Iraq. If we turn tail and run from there, the end result will be even more escalation of the violence and attacks all around the world. Doesn't anyone believe what they're saying? Hoping it will go away by appeasing them only makes them stronger, and the civilized world weaker.

When I was a child, I never understood the message the cartoons presented, when a villain was not wiped out, but was allowed to escape to come back to fight another day. That's what our public sees today. They think of the fight between civilization and barbarianism as a sporting match with rules, that at the end of the day, everyone goes home to fight another day.

That ain't the real world. This is not a ball game with rules.