Posted on 05/14/2002 1:22:19 PM PDT by NCDoc
Jimmy Carter is off this week to save Cuba.
With Carter on the loose, the American public needs to watch out.
It seems that almost wherever he goes and whatever positions he pushes, Jimmy Carter leaves a wake of devastation and disaster.
Carter, we should note, has been cozying up to North Korea for years. He helped the U.S. and the communist country come to agreement during the Clinton years to defuse a tense situation over North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
Under the wacko deal Carter arranged, the U.S. would stop complaining about Korea's nuclear weapons program as long as the U.S. gave aid to North Korea and helped the communists build more modern nuclear reactors.
The U.S. was well on the path to doing this when the new Bush administration sounded the alarm and immediately stopped the cockamamy plan dead in its tracks.
North Korea was not cooperating with the U.S. to stop its weapons program, but we should continue helping them to build nuclear reactors. Make sense?
Of course not.
But that's Jimmy Carter for you.
It's also Jimmy Carter the hypocrite. Carter has always claimed to be the champion of human rights worldwide.
Yet North Korea is one of the most, if not the most, repressive regimes on the planet.
The Stalinist nation is headed by a young madman named Kim Jong-il. Kim likes to watch American movies like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and then act out his fantasies on his own citizenry. Millions of North Koreans are starving at any given time.
Does Carter have much to say about this?
Of course not. North Korea is an enemy of the U.S., so Carter goes easy on them. When he met Kim, Carter didn't criticize him – he kissed him!
But there is nothing new here.
The media would have us forget Jimmy Carter's presidential record.
But I won't.
Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini?
No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.
The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.
By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever.
Soon the new Iranian government was ransacking our embassy and held hostage its staff for over a year. Only President Reagan's election gave Iran the impetus to release the hostages.
I believe Carter's decision to have the Shah fall is arguably the most egregious U.S. foreign policy mistake of the last 50 years. [Former President Bush's decision to allow Saddam Hussein to stay in power is a close second.]
With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan; no doubt a direct link to the rise of the Taliban can be traced to this invasion. Iraq also took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran. A long war followed that helped make Saddam's Iraq a great Middle Eastern power.
And decades after Carter's ignominious act, Iran is still bent on destroying America. President Bush named it one of the three nations in the "axis of evil." Iran is developing both nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver these weapons to its enemies.
We can thank Jimmy Carter for all of this.
Since Carter left the presidency, he has had little to say about the human rights abuses in Iran. Why should he? Iran opposes the U.S.
Instead, he has focused his attention on Israel, America's lone democratic ally in the Mideast. Recently, Carter suggested that the U.S. should cut off aid to Israel, so angry was he after Israel sought to defend itself in the wake of suicide bombings.
Fair enough. But what has Carter said about Arab or Muslim countries that have had long records of human rights abuse – Syria or Libya or Iran or Iraq?
Not much. One reason may be money. As NewsMax's Dave Eberhart reported recently, Carter and his Carter Center foundation are recipients of millions of dollars of Arab money. (See: Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance.)
So I give Carter his due. At least he is not a hypocrite in one sense. He is good to the dictators and butchers who give him money.
What about the Bay of Pigs? Still, Carter's about the last one anybody ought to be looking for Foreign Policy advice from!!
FReegards...MUD
Bullseye! And that isn't hindsight speaking. It was bad decision before it was made.
Jimmy Carter trusts himself altogether too much.
If a former Republican president were out undermining the policies of a RAT administration, the lame-stream media wouldn't stop screaming. Even though Carter was undoubtedly inept, I used to respect him as a decent, honorable man,--not anymore.
I had sorta fallen for the spin as well, but he's really exposing himself as a lowlife scumbag over the last few years.
FReegards...MUD
Hmm... thats a tough call. Clinton was and is a crook. Carter, on the other hand, was and is an incompetant fool. He gutted the CIA and the military at a time when the aging Brezniev and his Stalinist cohorts were looking for one more adventure with the Red Army. His actions in the name of "Human Rights" led not only to the rise of the Ayatolla, but to Noriega in Panama and Orgega in Nicaragua. Both would prove hostile to the US. He would travel without the football, leaving us defenceless in the face of nuclear attack. His solution to energy shortages was a sweater. Nuf said?
It is a bit strange that the US President with perhaps the worst foreign policy keeps going on all of these poreign policy trips now that he is an ex-president. What's up with that?
Yeah, he faked a lot of us out.
Hah ! Jimmah is what we used to call p---y whipped.
Rosalyn can't figure out why she couldn't push Jimmah into a Peace Prize. He's gonna have to keep on keepin' on till her true genius is acknowledged.
Actually, I regret calling ex-POTUS Carter that, because I believe he may just be naive--or senile--enough to believe his Collectivist Vision for America and the World is still an attractive option. He may once have been smart, but he's been living the DemonRAT Lie fer so long he's become Ignorant of the damage Socialism has inflicted upon Mankind...he's really got no more credibility than his ol' nemesis, Jesse Jackson.
FReegards...MUD
BTW...with respect to what he did to them 150 Iranian Officers, well, maybe the words "lowlife scumbag" do apply.
Didn't he, though? I mean, I always knew he was a dolt who inexplicably stumbled into the Presidency that he demeaned via his ineptitude...but he's increasingly coming off as a nettlesome boob.
Bush, Sr. may have been a Milquetoast Moderate who failed to grow the Reagan Revolution, but he was/is an honorable man who honors the office of the Presidency even now.
FReegards...MUD
LOL...I don't know, but the more I think back, the more I realize Jimmy Carter is one of the Primary reasons I joined the Reagan Revolution.
FReegards...MUD
BTW...what's with the A's, dude?!
Dude, it's going to be a long year for us Athletics Supporters.
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