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Moral Treason from Jimmy Carter: North Korea's Number One Cheerleader Espouses Marxism
Capitalism Magazine ^ | September 16, 2003 | Harry Binswanger

Posted on 09/16/2003 1:11:44 PM PDT by presidio9

On Saturdays, neither the NY Sun nor the WSJ is published, so I buy the NY Times. It keeps me from being overly optimistic. Today, on page 4 of the Times, there’s a story entitled "North Korean Standoff Poses ‘Greatest Threat,’ Carter Says." Here’s the lead paragraph:

“Tokyo, Sept. 5 - Former President Jimmy Carter, the man credited with defusing the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis, warned here today that the current standoff was the world’s ‘greatest threat.’”

Here’s how I would have written that lead:

“Tokyo, Sept. 5 - Former President Jimmy Carter, the man blamed for the failed 1994 attempt to bribe North Korea away from nuclear bomb development, admitted here today that the current standoff was the world’s ‘greatest threat.’”

A little later, the story said Carter’s 1994 trip “opened the way to the first nuclear agreement with North Korea.” Yeah, and Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 trip to Munich “opened the way to the first territorial agreement with Nazi Germany.”

The following is not about slanting, but the story quotes Carter as describing North Korea as a country “with a superb military technology and the ability to destroy hundreds and thousand of lives and most of Seoul if a war should come.”

So Carter is not only claiming that a primitive, brutal dictatorship has a “superb” military technology, but actually trying to scare the South Koreans (who are already acting, probably out of fear, as virtually a puppet of the North Korean regime).

Carter also advocated “the lifting of all economic and political sanctions against North Korea and the opportunity for that little country to become completely absorbed in world affairs on a normal basis.”

Poor little country! Only its “superb military technology” and the threat of killing hundreds of thousands of South Koreans keeps it afloat. If only we’d let it trade all its nonmilitary bounty with the rest of the world, it would become so absorbed in “world affairs” that it would change its ways, drop its ideology (which, incidentally, holds that trade is imperialist exploitation), and become normal.

This disgraceful moral treason by Carter is, among other things, the Marxist notion that ideology and politics is determined by “the mode of production.” But Carter implicitly recognizes the power of ideas and morality, because one of his charges against the US, one of the things he thinks as equivalent to North Korea’s breaking the agreement he is “credited with,” is Bush including North Korea in “the axis of evil.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: jimmah; jimmycarter; killerrabbit; northkorea
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1 posted on 09/16/2003 1:11:45 PM PDT by presidio9
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To: presidio9
Carter was unelected back in 1980. The problem occurs because he hasn't quite retired from public life yet. He needs to go build houses. That, at least, was an honorable pursuit.
2 posted on 09/16/2003 1:17:53 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (There are two certainties. Death and Texas.)
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To: presidio9
Carter was unelected back in 1980. The problem occurs because he hasn't quite retired from public life yet. He needs to go build houses. That, at least, was an honorable pursuit.
3 posted on 09/16/2003 1:17:53 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (There are two certainties. Death and Texas.)
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To: presidio9
Jimmy Carter: "Useful Idiot" or "Traitor"?

"[Marshall Tito] is a man who believes in human rights.
[He is] a great and courageous leader [who] has led his people
and protected their freedom almost for the last 40 years."

-- Carter, while still in office, hailing Yugoslavia's communist dictator

"Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and
politics ... We believe in enhancing human rights."

-- Carter comparing himself to Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu

"Our concept of human rights is preserved in [Communist] Poland."
-- Carter speaking to Stalinist Edward Gierek, Poland's First Secretary

"[I am] ashamed of what my country has done to your country."
-- Carter speaking to Haitian dictator Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras

"I don't see that they [the North Koreans] are an outlaw nation."
-- Carter in North Korea, lauding Stalinist Kim Il Sung,
   one of the most destructive and repressive dictators in history

"Ill-informed commentators in both countries have cast the other side
as a villain and have even forecast inevitable confrontation
between the two nations."

-- Carter making exquisite moral equivalence between the giant and
   repressive Chinese Communist state and America

Carter gave away US oversight of the Panama Canal, "the most
important waterway in the world," says Adm. Thomas H. Moorer (ret),
which is now "packed with Chinese communists."

Sadat, appalled that Carter wanted the Soviets in on Middle East peace
negotiations, decided to directly offer peace to Israel's Begin. When
their plan was essentially worked out, they then called the White House,
because obviously, "they needed someone to pay the bill" (Bernard Lewis).

Not resting on his laurels, Carter demanded the Shah of Iran step down
and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini, an Islamic madman. Carter
had the 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. More than 20,000 pro-Western Iranians were put before firing
squads. With the Shah gone, the whole region was destabilized.

Iraq took advantage of the Shah's departure to invade Iran, a war that
killed more than 500,000 people. It also created the regional instabilities
that led to Iraq’s later invasion of Kuwait and to Operation Desert Storm,
which cost the lives of hundreds of thousands more. But Carter meant well.

In the closing days of the 1980 election, Carter's White House contacted
the Soviets in a quid pro quo to plead for assistance in stopping Reagan
from winning. In 1984, Carter himself visited Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin
to ask the Soviets to intervene on behalf of Democrats. Damning evidence
that Jimmy Carter, as both president and citizen, may have committed treason
by enlisting the help of our enemies in presidential elections.

Since leaving office, Carter has:
- praised Syria's late Assad (killer of at least 20,000 in Hama)
- praised Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu (killer of many more than that)
- secured Saudi funding for Arafat after he sided with Iraq against the US
- wrote the UN Security Council after Iraq invaded Kuwait, urging them
to thwart President Bush's pre-Gulf War coalition (designed to reverse
that act of aggression) - another action some called "treason"

"Our people, who face Israeli bullets, have no weapons: only a few stones
remaining when our homes are destroyed by Israeli bulldozers."

-- from a speech written by Carter for Yassir Arafat

"[Arafat's] election [was] democratic, well organized, open and fair."
-- Carter describing the "rigged" 1996 Palestinian election

"[Arafat] may well see the suicide attacks as one of the few ways
to retaliate against his tormentors, to dramatize the suffering of
his people, or as a means for him, vicariously, to be a martyr."

-- Carter in an apologia for the Pali homicide-bombings

And yet, with the blood of perhaps a million people dripping from his hands,
Carter stalked the earth in his sick quest to be given a Nobel Peace Prize.

If he had any moral center at all, he would return his recent peace prize.

Carter is the smiley face of evil.

R E F E R E N C E S:

Jimmy Carter: America basher
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/jg20020515.shtml

Carter: Cuba Terror Claims False
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/682807/posts

There He Goes Again
http://www.nationalreview.com/20may02/nordlinger052002.asp

You Didn’t Ask for It, You Got It: Carterpalooza!
http://www.nationalreview.com/impromptus/impromptus050302.asp

Carter & Castro
http://www.frontpagemag.com/columnists/ponte05-08-02.htm

Jimmy Carter’s Trail of Disaster
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/12/164726.shtml

'Idiotic' Carter Castro's Dupe
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/5/15/202903.shtml

Carter, Democrats Asked Soviets to Stop Reagan
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/10/16/214040


4 posted on 09/16/2003 1:18:26 PM PDT by polemikos
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To: presidio9
Yep. Bump.
5 posted on 09/16/2003 1:19:12 PM PDT by Rusty Shackelford
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To: presidio9
The older he gets, the less he has to lose, and the more he reveals himself as an unabashed Marxist.
6 posted on 09/16/2003 1:23:52 PM PDT by At _War_With_Liberals (Concerned about globalism? PLEASE read http://toogoodreports.com/spotlight/110100-td.htm)
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To: presidio9
Jimmy's having another case of demensia brought on by that nasty killer rabbit bite.
7 posted on 09/16/2003 1:28:06 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: polemikos
Great rant.
8 posted on 09/16/2003 1:28:07 PM PDT by jjm2111
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To: polemikos
"Carter is the smiley face of evil."

Big ol' bump!

9 posted on 09/16/2003 1:28:20 PM PDT by headsonpikes
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10 posted on 09/16/2003 1:32:51 PM PDT by Sabertooth (Arnold opposes the driver's licenses, but he also wants to lobby DC to legalize Illegal Aliens. Ah.)
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To: presidio9
Hyman Rickover chewed Jimmy up and spit him out. But somehow he got elected President. I guess Rickover did not finish the job. Or the world went crazy.
11 posted on 09/16/2003 1:33:12 PM PDT by microgood (They will all die......most of them.)
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To: TADSLOS
Jimmy's having another case of demensia brought on by that nasty killer rabbit bite.

No, he fought the rabbit off with an oar. It was very heroic. There are songs about it.

12 posted on 09/16/2003 1:33:13 PM PDT by presidio9 (If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell)
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To: .cnI redruM
He needs to go build houses. That, at least, was an honorable pursuit.

Huh?

Crack house run out of Habitat for Humanity home, say police (Where's Jimmy Carter now?)

13 posted on 09/16/2003 1:38:05 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Calvin Locke
Oh Well! I tried to give the dismal b------ some credit....

LOL!
14 posted on 09/16/2003 1:43:21 PM PDT by .cnI redruM (There are two certainties. Death and Texas.)
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To: Sabertooth

Triplets seperated at birth

15 posted on 09/16/2003 1:43:21 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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16 posted on 09/16/2003 1:46:06 PM PDT by presidio9 (If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell)
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To: presidio9
I don't understand how the son of a Georgia peanut farmer and Naval Academy graduate morphed into a treasonous schlock for the left.
17 posted on 09/16/2003 1:49:58 PM PDT by Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie
I don't understand how the son of a Georgia peanut farmer and Naval Academy graduate morphed into a treasonous schlock for the left.

The same way a Little Rock Arkansas boy who graduated first in his class at West Point, became a Rhodes Scholar, and fought in Vietnam did. He was seduced and turned into a liberal shill for the promise of fame and fortune.

18 posted on 09/16/2003 1:55:13 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: presidio9
Carter has the intellect of a castrated pig.
19 posted on 09/16/2003 2:05:54 PM PDT by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: polemikos
That is simple terrific research, kudos to you! However, it makes me furious how the left is constantly willing to sacrifice precious lives in furtherance of its agenda.
20 posted on 09/16/2003 2:45:34 PM PDT by alwaysconservative (You say you want a revolution. . .well, bring it on already!)
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