Posted on 05/31/2007 3:12:22 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
Leadership: In foreign policy, Jimmy Carter proved his presidency the worst ever by subordinating U.S. interests to his vague "human rights" policy. All he did was enable dictators to take him to the cleaners.
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Carter had barely settled in at the White House in 1977 when he set about establishing his presidency as different. Instead of leading with the pragmatic idealism that marked most successful U.S. presidencies, the former governor of Georgia said he would base his leadership on a new, ill-defined concept of "human rights." Or so he imagined.
History shows that shift came at a high cost. Not only did it obscure Carter's duty to put U.S. interests first, the policy politicized a principle that was easily used by dictators Carter dealt with to undermine U.S. interests and abuse their citizens.
In a bad coda, Carter's "human rights" policy enabled him to continue his own mischief well beyond his presidency.
Carter started with an essentially flawed premise: weakness is strength. To show his seriousness, he cut the U.S. defense budget by $6 billion, signaling to global predators our lack of resolve.
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Left wing dictators, and Islamic dictators. Also, anyone who was against the USA. But Carter was against right wing dictators, or anyone who was against communism.
Key here is “Carters duty to put US interests first” Bush is starting to look alot like Carter with this immigration bill. Don’t ya think?
Umh, except there is heaven’s and hell’s difference between their foreign policies.
Bush may be bad (because of immigration) but he isn’t comparable to Carter. Not even close.
Just venting! This bill has got me twisted. Could be some inside trading going on, you give me this i’ll give you that. But either way we are on the loosing end!
Just venting! This bill has got me twisted. Could be some inside trading going on, you give me this i’ll give you that. But either way we are on the loosing end!
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