Carter urges 'supine' Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 5.26.08 | Jonathan Steele and Jonathan Freedland

[OnRightOnLeftCoast]

Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary festival, described the EU's position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as "supine" and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as "embarrassing". Referring to the possibility of Europe breaking with the US in an interview with the Guardian, he said: "Why not? They're not our vassals. They occupy an equal position with the US."

[the invisib1e hand]

"Why not? They're not our vassals. They occupy an equal position with the US."

The beauty of being raised in a land in which men and women will die for, among other things, the right to free speech, is that no one will prevent you from opening your mouth and showing the entire world what spineless ass you are, if you happen to be one.

bitter-ex-president-pimping-for-a-legacy alert.

[WildcatClan]

[mylife]

He has no shame

[Beloved Levinite]

Damn funny sh*t! LOL!

[quadrant]

Is there any chance Jimmy might relocate to the Gaza?

[Polybius]

"Why not? They're not our vassals. They occupy an equal position with the US."

Well, in strictly feudal terms, Europe is more like the militarily impotent peasants cowering in the fortified castle protected by the military might of the feudal lord when danger comes around.

Unlike in a feudal society, the modern-day Europeans expect that military protection from America as if it were a European Union birth right.

Without U.S. military power, Europe would be begging Iran and Russia for oil at any price.

With Jimmy Carter policies in effect, America would be without any credible or effective military power.

[Brilliant]

I would be perfectly content with the Europeans taking on the responsibility of solving the Israel/Palestinian problem.

[BatGuano]

Please put this despicable ex-president away where he can no longer harm us!! I caught a glimpse of his bugeyed puss on TV the other night and he looks like he is on his way out. In desperation, he seeks to create an image for history to remember instead of his disastrous administration. He only succeeds in making himself a laughing stock. AT LEAST, PLEASE SEND MIM BACK TO THE PEANUT FARM!!

[Calvin Locke]

Comparing Carter to Arnold is an insult to Arnold. Arnold was a very competent military commander that got shafted by the politics.

Not that it justifies what he did, but even the British detested him for his traitorous action afterward.

Carter doesn't really have any achievements to point to, and he's lionized by the left only to poke America in the eye.

Carter has plenty of company, though, with Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, B.Hussein Obama, Jim McDermott, Jay Rockefeller, ...

[DManA]

Good. Let him go be a pest in Europe.

[mylife]

I stand corrected! :)

[ArmyTeach]

In a rational world, ‘Jimmuh’ would be bound and gagged. However, he could be useful. In the next few months, whenever foreign policy is debated, ‘Jimmuh’ should be held up as an example of Democrat expertise in foreign policy. Over and over, again and again, relentlessly.

[lilylangtree]

Give this imbecile a one-way to ticket to live in Gaza with the terrorists. He wouldn’t last 24 hours.

[Uncle Hal]

Jimmy is the last person I want telling the USA how run there foreign affairs. He botched every thing up when he was president.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Are any of you kind freepers psychoanalysts/psychiatrists who can give us a good grip on his psychosis?

Thank you.

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[elcid1970]

So Traitorous Jimmah calls the EU “supine”?

The Eurabians are already supine, but not for the reason he thinks.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

One wonders just how deeply indebted this walking weasel must be, and to exactly whom.