Posted on 04/22/2006 6:39:20 AM PDT by wagglebee
Everybody's playing the blame game these days. The current target is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems to be standing in for President Bush – the man who his enemies say is responsible for everything that's gone wrong since the Biblical flood. ("Bush lied about the need to build an ark.")
South of our borders we have a nut job running oil-rich Venezuela and threatening to do all kinds of nasty things to us. In North Korea we have another nut job building nukes and rattling sabers, and in Iran there's still another whacked-out leader threatening to blow Israel off the map, for starters.
Believe me, Rummy had nothing to do with any of that. Nor did George Bush. If you're looking for someone to point the finger at, look no further than James Earl Carter. Every one of these problems can be laid at the door of the Georgia peanut farmer and self-anointed evangelist for world peace, understanding, good-will, and promoter of universal love-ins with dictators who hate us.
Let's begin with Iran, a boiling cauldron of hatred for everything associated with Western civilization. Recall that when Jimmah took office Iran was ruled by a strong ally of the United States, the Shah. Like most Middle Eastern potentates, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ruled with an iron hand. Under him, Iran was not the kind of democracy we're now promoting for the Middle East.
The Shah, however, was also the staunch friend and ally of the United States. He saw to it that the oil kept flowing in our direction, and kept his military in good-enough shape to protect our interests in the area.
But the Shah somehow offended Brother Carter's exalted view of the inherent goodness of a mankind freed from the strictures imposed by dictatorial rules. With a wink and a nod, he arranged to have Pahlavi replaced by an exiled mullah - the Ayatollah Khomeini - who in Carter's view would be a moderate leader who would democratize Iran.
What Carter got for us was a Muslim fanatic seething with hatred for everything Western, who without blinking an eye spat on our national sovereignty when he took over the United States embassy in Tehran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, until the U.S. came to its senses and elected my dad Ronald Reagan to replace the hapless Jimmy Carter.
Thanks to Carter, Iran today constitutes a grave threat to the United States and to world peace. He allowed the creation of an Islamic Republic bent on imposing the most repressive form of Islam on the entire world.
Then we can turn to Venezuela, now locked in the grip of a Castro-clone and fervent communist Hugo Chavez, who is creating a heavily armed communist dictatorship on our southern doorstep. When Chavez faced a recall election Cater was on hand to monitor the election, which turned out to be rigged to elect Chavez from the very start. Despite overwhelming evidence that the Chavez victory was the result of rampant vote fraud, Mr. Carter put his stamp of approval on it, declaring it to have been fair and honest. Carter kept Chavez in office.
In 1994, when Bill Clinton was facing down North Korea's Kim Il-Sung, father of current dictator Kim Jong-Il, he sent Carter to strike a deal on his development of nuclear technology. Speaking of the dying murderous dictator, Carter said he found him "vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well-informed about the technical issues, and in charge of the decisions about this country," and added, "I don't see the [North Koreans] are an outlaw nation."
The deal Carter made allowed the North Koreans to work behind the scenes to build nuclear weapons which now threaten world peace. When he came back from North Korea he told CNN's Judy Woodruff, "I think it's all roses now..."
I agree with Jack Kinsella who once wrote in the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest that "... Jimmy Carter holds the hands-down record for being the worst ex-president the United States has ever known. His post-presidential meddling in foreign affairs has cost America dearly, both in terms of international credibility and international prestige."
Amen
What do they have in common?
They all have a name that starts with "J."
Abso-flippin'-lutely..
Can you feel the LOVE in this room?
Fingerpointing and fault laying accomplishes exactly zero.
It's the "KATRINA effect" all over again.
Knowing and understanding what ,who and how things happen is useful as a guide for the future. As sweet as revenge may be,it's ridiculously stupid.
"Let's begin with Iran, a boiling cauldron of hatred for everything associated with Western civilization. "
That's not entirely true - some of the aging leadership might be described that way, but there's also some moderates there. And the mid-to-younger generations love their cellphones, satellite TVs, internet, and nightlife as much as their Western counterparts (and much to the annoyance of their elders).
Ninth rung in hell reserved for the Peanut boy. He won't be alone. Fatboy Kennedy, both Clintons, Libs, the MSM and their pals will hang from that rung.
Don't ever vote for a man named Jimmah Jefferson Johnson.
bttt
I honestly think Jimmy Carter is against this country totally with some of the crap that comes flying out of his mouth. Anybody else, but an ex-president would have been in the clink by now with such remarks.
[ "... Jimmy Carter holds the hands-down record for being the worst ex-president the United States has ever known. His post-presidential meddling in foreign affairs has cost America dearly, both in terms of international credibility and international prestige."]
An atheist ungodly pretend Christian of the most destructive sort, a pro communist,pro homosexual, anti Christ lover of communist dictators.
Christ will judge him for his unbelief and Jimmy Carter will be cast in the lake of fire for the evil he has and is doing against God and Christianity.
A most hate man is Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter is a seed of a SPACE ALIEN.................. placed here to cause chaos.
I don't know Ramses Cluck er, Ramsey Clark is very much in the race too, along with his faithful sidekicks, the K Kids - Kerry and Kennedy
The child of alien citrus fruit. How else do you explain his perpetual pucker ?
Mike on the mark. What a destructive legacy is Carter's
It's about time someone wrote this. Michael Reagan did an excellent job. I think Khomeini's rise to power may be a major cause of today's Islamic terror.
Here's the recipe to produce Islamic terrorists:
Create a Muslim theocratic state.
Establish Muslim law, Muslim schools, teach Jihad.
The schools provide an inspiration and are copied in other nations.
Add about 20 years.
That should bring us to today. And it all started with Jimmy Carter's decision that the Shah wasn't good enough for him. He would not support a dictator who was pro-American. But as Michael details, he had no trouble supporting dictators who were anti-American.
Worst ex-president in history, too.
Yes, and those moderates were to have overthrown the mullahs by now.
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