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Jimmy Carter: A Five-Nation Plan to End the Syrian Crisis
nytimes.com ^
| 10/23/2015
| jimmy carter
Posted on 10/24/2015 8:55:34 AM PDT by rktman
I HAVE known Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, since he was a college student in London, and have spent many hours negotiating with him since he has been in office. This has often been at the request of the United States government during those many times when our ambassadors have been withdrawn from Damascus because of diplomatic disputes.
Bashar and his father, Hafez, had a policy of not speaking to anyone at the American Embassy during those periods of estrangement, but they would talk to me.
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TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Russia; Syria; US: Georgia; US: New York; War on Terror
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"Hafez, had a policy of not speaking to anyone at the American Embassy during those periods of estrangement, but they would talk to me." Obviously you couldn't see the writing on the wall jimmah. Of course they'd talk to you since you were such an obvious fool and easily tricked/persuaded. Maybe you should offer to build some houses for these poor folks.
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posted on
10/24/2015 8:55:34 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
Still, I’d rather have Assad in charge than ANY group fighting him, besides the Kurds, and i’m not even sure if the Kurds are in this fight.
I know they’re fighting in Iraq and near Turkey.
Assad kept Christians relatively safe and slaughtered muslims who got uppity. who cares about that?
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posted on
10/24/2015 8:59:08 AM PDT
by
dp0622
To: rktman
“AND, it’s cancer on the inside, moving up on senility, gaining on lifetime incompetence ... we got a real horse race here folks!”
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posted on
10/24/2015 8:59:48 AM PDT
by
mkjessup
("Politics Ain't Beanbag - Finley Peter Dunne")
To: rktman
This from the man who began the whole mess we deal with now and he has a plan to solve it? Pardon me while I either alternately roll on the floor laughing or run to the can to puke.
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posted on
10/24/2015 8:59:53 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: rktman
What is it with commies and five year plans? They are always planning for the next five years.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:01:12 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
To: rktman
but they would talk to me.""""
Well arn't you just the special one!!!!.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:02:51 AM PDT
by
annieokie
To: rktman
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:05:17 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
I thought carter, the 2nd worse prez, was dead.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:08:24 AM PDT
by
hal ogen
(First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
To: rktman
Jimmy Carter: A Five-Nation Plan to End the Syrian Crisis
Yeah! Since that 4 nation deal in Berlin and Vienna worked so well let's up it one. That'll make it even better.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:08:32 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: rktman
Knowing Carter, I’m surprised his “plan” for Syria does not include the elimination of Israel. It’s probably buried in the fine print.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:09:26 AM PDT
by
rbg81
(is pr)
To: PIF
Just some Saturday morning humor. I guess Ms. Rosalynn doesn’t know he’s loose again. What an embarrassment.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:09:46 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: rktman
If Carter in any way perturbs Obama with his meddling, I am happy.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:10:53 AM PDT
by
PghBaldy
(12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: rktman
Doesn’t he have a brain tumor?
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:13:35 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: dp0622
Still, Id rather have Assad in charge than ANY group fighting him I reluctantly agree. The opposition is either ISIS, or rebels who - if they win - will be pushed aside by ISIS.
It's sort of like the situation in Russia in 1917. Do you prefer the autocratic Tsar, or do you prefer the Bolsheviks?
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:15:35 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: Vaquero
Doesnt he have a brain tumor? I think that's true. He is quite ill.
Carter is a very naive person. And that naivety has hurt a lot of people. But unlike many leaders on the world stage today, I believe that he is a good person, with good intentions. He is in my prayers.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:19:48 AM PDT
by
Leaning Right
(Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
To: hal ogen
Last I heard, Jimma was being treated for brain cancer.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:21:41 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: rktman
Anything the hateful old peanut farmer advocates is almost guaranteed to hurt America. He’s shown zero signs of any atonement. He’s a bad thistle that grows no good figs. Caveat emptor!!
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:33:46 AM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
(Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
To: rktman
Give up all hope, if we have to turn to Carter to fix it. All is lost, or will be.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:37:30 AM PDT
by
pallis
To: mkjessup
AND, its cancer on the inside, moving up on senility, gaining on lifetime incompetence ... we got a real horse race here folks!
LOL! The also ran jockeying for relevance.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:38:19 AM PDT
by
PGalt
To: Jonty30
Really, it isn’t the length of the plan that matters. It is having a plan at all. Better just to wing it.
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posted on
10/24/2015 9:40:41 AM PDT
by
Lisbon1940
(No full-term governors)
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