Posted on 12/18/2006 8:29:15 AM PST by george76
There appears to be no bottom to the pit of specious vacuity in which former president Jimmy Carter has been falling since his massive repudiation by voters in his 1980 election loss to Ronald Reagan.
Carter’s latest book — “Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid” — poses a ridiculous argument and commits unforgivable intellectual sins while doing so.
The ridiculosity underlying Carter’s book is his assertion that Israel is imposing apartheid on the Palestinians by such measures as constructing the West Bank fence intended to keep suicide bombers and other terrorists from crossing into Israel to kill and maim.
Carter clearly doesn’t care that Israel remains the sole true democracy in the Middle East and affords Arabs living within its borders voting rights and economic privileges unknown anywhere else in the region.
To classify anti-terrorist measures as forms of apartheid is to indicate a complete lack of understanding of the reality facing Israel every day.
Since Carter’s book appeared, it has sparked heavy and unrelenting criticism from thoughtful people across the political spectrum, as well as the resignation of Dr. Ken Stein, one of the nation’s most respected Middle East scholars, from a Carter-led academic institute at Emory University.
At the root of Carter’s Middle Eastern perspective, of course, is his unalloyed blindness toward the Palestinians in particular and the political Muslim world’s long-running antipathy towards Jews.
Carter’s latest tome is “replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions and simply invented segments.”
Carter would do himself and his countrymen a favor by permanently resisting the urge to offer any further commentary on world affairs.
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I can almost pity Teddy. He had the task of living up to the Kennedy "legacy" and knew he could not. That night at Chappaquidick ought to have ended his career, taken him off the hook. But people wouldn't let him. He was like Bonnie Prince Charlie, another unwilling and incapable heir. Whatever. The Kennedy dynasty ended in 1980 and he and his pathetic sons and nephews live out their days, as the family goes to seed.
Peanuts was the last one to fool me also. I was 23.
"It looks like a big suburban swimming pool!"
Did you see where Hillary propsed a return to the national 55 speed limit ?
Thank you.
4. DISCO!!!!
I like DISCO and never attributed it to Carter.
You people have to stop posting pictures like that while I am drinking coffee!!!! Jeez, If I can't clean this monitor and keyboard up I'm gonna have to pay for it! Hysterical!!!!!
good post!
GWB's bold take-down of Saddam Hussein (if we dont wimp out) will prove to be the BEST decision.
Because when the day comes where we have to take down Iran, we will already have signifigant firepower on the eastern flank.
Besides, if we had done NOTHING post 9/11, every single radical mullah-state would have joined Saddam Hussein in powering up for war against the US.
As it is NOW, all we really have to deal with is Iran. (Syria is insignifigant, as are other arab militaries.)
I hope she proposes it in public. That should send her Presidential prospects right down the toilet. :-)
Are you the author of this article? (It kicked butt!)
Just the messenger.
Are you the author of this article?
HILL DRIVE FOR '55' ( National Maximum Speed Limit )
- In a surprise move yesterday, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called for "most of the country" to return to a speed limit of 55 mph in an effort to slash fuel consumption...
"The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage.
And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it," Clinton said at the National Press Club.
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