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Ex-President Carter wants sanctions weakened on terrorist groups
The Hill ^
| June 20, 2013
| Julian Pecquet
Posted on 06/20/2013 6:41:28 AM PDT by maggief
Former President Jimmy Carter is spearheading an effort to convince the U.S. to weaken sanctions on terrorist groups so that peace organizations can legally work with them.
In a petition to Secretary of State John Kerry delivered Thursday, Carter and other foreign policy experts ask Kerry to exempt peace groups from policies that make it a crime to offer negotiation training and humanitarian law classes to terror groups.
The Secretary of State can, and should, exempt peacebuilding activities from this counterproductive application of the law, says the petition. Doing so would open the door for professional peacebuilders to fully engage in helping to end armed conflicts and suffering around the world, while making the U.S. safer.
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The petition is signed by more than two dozen groups and former officials, including Mercy Corps; Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development under President George W. Bush; retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Director of Policy Planning at the State Department from 2009-2011.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: carter; jimmycarter; terrorism; terrorists
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:41:28 AM PDT
by
maggief
To: maggief
Jimmah, don’t you get it, the muzzie nut jobs want us all dead.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:45:21 AM PDT
by
duckman
(I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
To: maggief
Still screwing things up after all these years....
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:45:35 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: maggief
We have Breitbart for 43 years.
Meanwhile this puts - this toxic buffoon - goes on and on.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:45:45 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: skeeter
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:46:31 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: maggief
....Still scared s*#tless of rabbits.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:47:01 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
To: maggief
President Carter......the guy who went to war with 6 helicopters.
'Nuff said.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:48:12 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: maggief
It is amazing that he got to be this old and still doesn’t have any common sense.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:48:22 AM PDT
by
rocksblues
(The Obama administration the most unlawful, corrupt administration in US history.)
To: Vaquero
Still crazy
After all these years
Oooooooh
Still crazy
After all these years...
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:49:18 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
To: rocksblues
Carter's brain should be donated to medical science either now or after he passes away so that modern medicine can figure out, how a relatively young man in the mid-1970’s already showed signs of the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease which only grew worse with age and still, some people paid attention to what he had to say...
In a quirk of history, another (current) President managed to outdo him in sheer naivete, foolish policies and idiocy.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:53:50 AM PDT
by
Netz
(Netz)
To: maggief
Heard it was a rumor but must be ... jimmi took himself out of the peanut business and thinks raising chickens is a better alternative.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:54:37 AM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: maggief
@$$holes don’t change their stripes.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:56:07 AM PDT
by
kenmcg
(scapegoat)
To: maggief
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin." Lillian Carter.
More true today than ever before.
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posted on
06/20/2013 6:56:42 AM PDT
by
verga
(A nation divided by Zero!)
To: maggief
Oh when, just when is this worthless POS going to take a dirt nap?
To: maggief
Jimmy Carter: “Love your enemies and hate your friends and family”
To: maggief
“The organization told The Hill that in the past efforts to build bridges with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Hamas in the Palestinian territories and leftist guerillas in Colombia have all been stymied.”
My heart bleeds...
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posted on
06/20/2013 7:00:22 AM PDT
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: maggief
Oh, Lord, here we go again. That old buzzard needs to just sit in front of a window in a rocking chair and leave the rest of the world alone.
To: maggief
Well, can’t he just sign an ex-executive order or sumpin?
To: maggief
Maybe Jim-bob should run for office. Otherwise, I don’t care what he “wants”.
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posted on
06/20/2013 7:38:22 AM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
To: maggief
Jimmy! You don’t need to have this decriminalized. Just take it upon yourself - go to the most violent terrorist camp and do a sensativity training class. Just do it. You da man.
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posted on
06/20/2013 7:52:13 AM PDT
by
mom.mom
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