Just War — or a Just War? (Jimmy Carter MEGA-BARF Alert!!)

The New York Times ^ | March 9, 2003 | Jimmy Carter, unemployed loser

[Chi-townChief]

Hey! That's no way to talk to a former president! You should say: "With all due respect, Go F--- yourself, Carter."

Now doesn't that sound better?

Personally, I think Jimmy is in need of a good butt-kicking. Of course, with all due respect.

[Lokibob]

ON 23 January 1980, in his State of the Union Address, President Jimmy Carter announced a new American policy that came to be called the Carter Doctrine. Referring to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Mr. Carter warned that:

An attempt by an outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.

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How can he sleep at night?

[chasio649]

How can Jimmy Carter talk about foreign policy with a straight face? His administrations was a complete cluster *%#@.

[bonesmccoy]

Mr. President, Have you forgotten????

[fhayek]

Worst President in US history? I'd say so.

Well he's a contender. But I still say that that distinction belongs to Bubba Spunkmeister.

[Semi Civil Servant]

I don't remember any Carter op-eds criticizing Bill Clinton over the non-UN approved war in Kosovo. I wonder why?

I used to think Jimmy was an OK guy (though a lousy president) when he was doing something useful -- pounding nails for Habitat for Humanity. He's really revealed himself to be a first class jerk in the past few years.

The Jimmy and Bill show enabled N. Korea to acquire nukes -- their lasting contribution to "world peace". On that fact alone, you'd think both of them would want to crawl into a hole.

Jimmy Carter: just another corrupt hypocritical Democrat. You should have kept pounding nails, Mr. Nobel Peace Prize.

[ricpic]

Jimmuh would have us send a few helicopters into Iraq to be shot down. Because, after all, what has Saddam done to us yet? Whatta guy in the clutch.

[muawiyah]

Seems it musta' been Jimmy Carter who allowed the North Koreans to build more than 100 atom bombs.

[Petronski]

Hey Jimmah! Have a cookie!

[Petronski]

[Arthur McGowan]

As a Christian...

Nonsense. Carter is a babykiller, and it impossible for anyone to be both a babykiller and a Christian. He was our first aggressively pro-abortion President. He was the most pro-abortion President until Clinton.

[torchthemummy]

I'm remember that in 1980, at the tender age of 15, I was watching some news report shortly before Reagan's triumph and there was a sign that said (and says) it all: "Why not an actor - we've had a clown for the last four years!!"

Lot longer than four years, to our detriment.

[Arthur McGowan]

The war's weapons must discriminate between combatants and noncombatants.

As always, Carter lies. This is not one of the classic conditions of a just war. What is disallowed is deliberate targeting of civilians, and what is required is sincere effort to avoid civilian casualties. But the condition is not absolute, as Carter states it. Carter is an inveterate liar. He doesn't have the same reputation as a liar that Clinton has, only because didn't have personal sexual scandals to lie about. Carter lied about the military, about foreign policy, about the budget, about the effects of tax cuts, about the cause of inflation, about Reagan's "racism," about the killing of the unborn, about being a Christian, etc. Just not about sex.

[Arthur McGowan]

Thank you for pointing this out--that once a man leaves the White House, he should be addressed by the highest title he had earned before his term as President. The same is true of Vice Presidents, btw. Miss Manners once did a column on this, bemoaning the loss of this traditional bit of protocol, which was adopted early on--by Jefferson, I think--as a sign of humility and as a tribute to the concept of the citizen politician. Thus, I hope that all on FR adopt the following usages for our former Presidents: Governor Carter, Governor Reagan, Ambassador Bush, The Rapist.

[Arthur McGowan]

The Souther Baptist Convention also happens to be opposed to butchering babies, while Jimmy was our first aggressively pro-abortion President, and our last pro-abortion President not to be credibly accused of rape.

[mingwah]

I just found some wallpaper!!!

[WarEagle]

Try 444 days. You give Carter too much credit.

[Arthur McGowan]

That was 444 days!

[Toidylop]

Those are leaders earning popular respect without saying a thing. Those are leaders devoid any respect no matter how loud they shout.

Jimmuh Carter IS the leader in the latter group.

[TADSLOS]

OOPS, Phat Phinger. Thanks for the correction.