[Pokey78]

Wow! The NYT op-ed page with columns from bothAlGore & Jimmuh Carter.

Must be Dowd's fantasy.

[Rome2000]

Carter is just another leftist fellow traveler who was a complete FAILURE when it came to dealing with the soon to be extinct "islamic" subhuman heretical cannon fodder.

The ultimate outcome is easy to see if one has the courage to say it out loud.

Islam will never be allowed to posess weapons of mass destruction.

THEY ARE NOT INVITED to the club.

A bright flash followed by a light holier than "allah" will be the raghead legacy.

[PhilDragoo]

There is adequate blame on the other side

To distill a single phrase to represent the monumental asininity of this man on this topic, one might as well select this one which embodies his moral equivalence.

Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount was the most transparent of pretexts for Arafat's prearranged intifada.

Far from "failing to control Hamas" and the like, Sharon has now proven Arafat to be the president of terrorism, the chairman of homicide bombers.

Barak's unprecedented concessions and Arafat's summary rejection are the coffin for the Carter Doctrine.

This is the man who was terrified by a rabbit.

This is the "leader" who appeased North Korea, surrendered Iran, gave away the Panama Canal, betrayed Taiwan, embraced Communist China and Communist Cuba.

This is the "leader" who when faced with challenges demonstrated to America how to put on a sweater and lament a malaise.

Applying the Carter Doctrine to the World Trade Center and Pentagon and Flight 93 attacks of September 11, 2001, we should be sending Carter to hold elections among the Al Qaeda, and arrange a peace process with Osama bin Laden.

It is entirely consistent for the New York Times to give this anacephalic a forum.

Its motto and Carter's: "All is skewed to fit our bent"

[UB355]

Got to read this one tomorrow

[BluesDuke]

As if anything Jimmy Carter says about foreign affairs should be taken seriously?

Saint Jimmy's Halo Askew

Jimmy Carter may not have been earliest in perceiving that President Clinton's foreign policy is a vacuum, but he has been fastest in filling it with himself.

For 14 years come November, he has been carrying the smile that proclaims his wound through incessant voyages in pursuit of a cure. He has wandered as any pilgrim must when he has no clear idea of the shrine he seeks except that it is built for him.

For awhile he floated about as an international statesman whose only portfolio was a heart eager for office temp employment as an ambassador from Saddam Hussein or Kim Il Sung.

At points in his pilgrimage Carter made a singularly useful private citizen; and his career would never again have known a blotch if he could curb his lust to be a public man once more.

His opportunity to fall came his way last spring. The Clinton administration had puffed up the peril of North Korea's nuclear potential rather beyond need and too far beyond this president's taste for forcible action.

Jimmy Carter, private citizen, took wing to Pyongyang alighted to Kim Il Sung's courtesies, and emerged to describe him as "charming," Carter's favourite adjective for statesmen otherwise ill-famed. He was persuaded that Kim would be reasonable and agreeable and the president welcomed the assurance, since agreeability is his pole star. North Korea was thereafter consigned to the cemetery of forgotten menaces.

But Carter had marked Clinton as one of those men whose engagements with troublesome problems progress unvaryingly through stages of indecision to arrival at inanition. Carter could wait his time certain that his chance to seize his advantage was sure to come and so it did in Haiti.

Clinton had paltered so long that events had overtaken him. He had let himself slide toward having to do the last thing he had ever wanted to do. Then Jimmy Carter threw out a rope. Clinton was a swimmer in distress and what could he do but concede the lifeguard full play with the line?

And so Carter picked the mission to Gen. Raoul Cedras, who would not stoop to traffic with any creature so lowly as the president's national security adviser. Carter enjoyed himself awhile in his old role as a despot's short-term ambassador to Washington, dined with the Cedrases, and as ever found him charming and her even more so. He then accepted a deal more than implying amnesty for the whole catalog of crimes committed by the regime and the least of its servitors up to Oct. 15 next.

Having left Haiti's cops their licence to beat two demonstrators to death with presumable impunity on Tuesday, Carter returned in triumph to lecture the president in public for having mistaken Cedras for a dictator.

This performance especially disturbs for an ignorance of three years of Haitian history shocking even in a former president of the United States. All the time he was tirelessly gadding about, he was too lazy to inform himself about a record whose monstrosities demand extremities of mercy for sparing their doers from hanging higher than Haman.

Yesterday's Times published a Carter interview with Maureen Dowd, a young woman as richly endowed in head as she is beguiling in manner and dangerous to meet when you walk on shaky ground. In its course, Carter remembered that, when the United Nations was debating its mobilisation against Saddam Hussein, he had undertaken to write the heads of state of the Security Council states and urge them not to go along with George Bush's wishes.

He described that action as "not appropriate, perhaps." One could well think of harsher appellations. What would have been appropriate would be raising his objections to his countrymen, which I cannot recall his doing with overmuch fervour. Instead he addressed private letters to foreign potentates in a design to rally them against his own government. Such is the pretentious effrontery inescapable for anyone who sets himself up to persuade the voters that they were wrong not to re-elect a saint.

- Murray Kempton, 1994.

[DoughtyOne]

Once thing about Jimmy Carter, it's tough to believe he lives on the same planet inbetween surfacing to make an a-- out of himself all over again.

Jimmy is still trying to milk anything he can for a legacy.  When it comes to legacy building, Clinton is a piker compared Carter.  Carter refers to an election held in 1996.  Ah the democratic possibilities.  How many elections has Israel had since 1996.  Three?  More?  I may be mistaken, but haven't Netanyahu, Barak and Sharon held office since 1996.  When will Yasser allow elections again I wonder.  If this were Israel or the US, Carter would rightly be leading protests on the steps of the capital building demanding new elections.  But hey, why hold Arafat to any standards at all, right Jimmy?

Now, when it comes to standards, there's one guy that deserves standards to be applied fairly.  Right Jimmy?  I man Ariel Sharon is a forceful man.  After all, isn't it forceful to demand that suicide bombings stop?  Isn't it forceful to make small incursions into Palestinian territory to try to stop those suicide bombings?  And when they don't, isn't it forceful to launch a full military operation into Palestinian territory?  Some might mistakenly call this prudent.  Thank heaven Jimmy is here to the rescue.  Instead it's forceful.  It is Sharon who avoids peace at every turn.  And what was Barak doing in 2000 Jimmy?  Was it forceful of him to make a pretty good offer to Arafat then?

I guess there are bad deeds, and then there are bad deeds hugh Jimmy?  Listed right up there are the deeds of Sharon visiting the Temple Mount, and Yasser seeing the suicide attacks as one of the few ways to retaliate against his tormentors.  How dare that evil Sharon!

You state that the policies of Sharon have ussered in the murderous acts of bombings.  Yet you fail to mention that the latest round of violence had it's inception under Primie Minister Barak.  How does this compute Jimmy?  Did you mean to say the evil policies of Barak caused this, or are you just going further insane?

Jimmy, bud, do you really think right of return is ever going to fly?  Right now we've got people who've been waring with Israel for over half a century.  Now you want Israel to do all the giving?  Are you a reation thinking being?

<i>There are two existing factors that offer success to United States persuasion. One is the legal requirement that American weapons are to be used by Israel only for defensive purposes, a premise certainly being violated in the recent destruction of Jenin and other villages.</i> I guess Jimmy just arrived back from Neptune about three weeks ago.  He is unaware that Israel was acting preemptively, defensively by entering Jenin.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.  In Carter's case we don't need to worry, there isn't one to be wasted.
 

[LadyForLiberty]

It is not Israel who needs to be forced into a just peace. The question we all must face is; who will FORCE the Palestinians into a JUST PEACE?

[xm177e2]

his open defiance of President George W. Bush's demand that he comply with international law

When was this???

[xm177e2]

The basic premises of these resolutions are withdrawal of Israelis from Palestinian lands in exchange for full acceptance of Israel and Israel's right to live in peace

Surely Jimmah remembers the Oslo Accords, which were supposed to do the same thing. I mean, come on--he was present at the signing!

[goldstategop]

Bwahahaha!!! More of Jimmy Carter's infamous incompetence on display. This was the same man whose policies ushered in the Ayatollah Khomeini, who let American hostages rot for 444 days in Teheran, and who botched a rescue mission at Desert One. And he thinks he knows what it will take to make peace in the Middle East? I particularly relished his description of Arafat's dictatorship as being inaugurated under a "democratic" election. Yeah right. An election in which there was only one official candidate running and in which 99.99 percent landslides are the norm in the Arab Middle East. No America can't persuade Israel to make peace if only ONE side wants it. Carter is sadly out of his depth and he shows again why the American people couldn't wait to get rid of him after 4 nightmare years of being President. He really should stick to building Habitat Homes For Humanity.

[liberalism=failure]

Ah yes, that's right, let's take advice from the biggest failure of a president we ever had. NOT!

I have a better ideas--Let's stay out of it, it's not our business.

[Walkin Man]

Wow! The NYT op-ed page with columns from bothAlGore & Jimmuh Carter.

Now thats what I call high quality birdcage liner!

[TopQuark]

Wow! The NYT op-ed page with columns from bothAlGore & Jimmuh Carter.

I think The NY Times simply strives to look presidential, Pokey. As you can see, their trouble is in that they publish wrong presidents --- one failed and almost-president.

The "paper of record" has a record of betting on a wrong horse. Did you know that they supported Musollini in the 1930s?

[brat]

The ONLY way Israel will ever have peace is to rout out the Palestinians!

[Quix]

ISN'T THERE A PASTOR SORT NEAR JIMMY BOY WHO WOULD HAVE THE COURAGE TO KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO JIMMY AND REMIND HIM OF THE BIBLE HE SUPPOSEDLY REVERES SO MUCH??? AND IF JIMMY TURNS THE OTHER CHEEK, BEAT THAT ONE, TOO!!!