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  • Jimmy Carter's No Real Humanitarian

    12/31/2024 2:44:29 PM PST · by Freeleesy · 11 replies
    PRISM ^ | April 1997 | Gordon Smith
    Jimmy Carter's No Real Humanitarian by Gordon Smith When former President Jimmy Carter speaks to the graduates of University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill on May 3, the listeners might bear in mind that Carter's reputation for principled concern for the downtrodden is open to question. Carter has done some benevolent things after 1981, as ex-President. He's built homes for the poor, spoken eloquently on behalf of human rights, helped the Haitian dictator Cedras resign, and presided over the negotiations ending the Yugoslav War. While all of this is good, Carter presided over some serious war crimes in the Third World....
  • Terrorists of Another Brand-Third World torturers are living in our midst; what the INS should do

    01/19/2004 5:04:47 AM PST · by SJackson · 3 replies · 81+ views
    FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | January 19, 2004 | Bill West
    If you visited Disney World in Orlando sometime in the late 1990s and had occasion to ride a water taxi in one of the several theme parks, your boat driver just might have been a friendly middle-aged fellow with a nametag bearing “Jean-Claude.” The tag may have even shown he was from Haiti. Perhaps Jean-Claude would have answered a few of your questions about the park, or even patted your young son or daughter on the shoulder as your family disembarked from the vessel. Disney officials, after all, have publicly stated that Jean-Claude Duperval was a fine employee until he...
  • Where are they now: former bloody dictators

    01/27/2003 11:42:49 AM PST · by HAL9000 · 7 replies · 296+ views
    Scripps Howard News Service | January 23, 2003 | LISA HOFFMAN
    They were reviled by much of the world and responsible, collectively, for tens of thousands of deaths of those they ruled with brute force and terror. In the end, though, these dictators fled into exile. A look at a few of the most notable: IDI AMIN - One of the 20th century's most notorious dictators, Amin presided over the murder of more than 400,000 of his fellow Ugandans and allegedly ate some of their flesh. His eight-year bloody reign ended in 1979, when Tanzanian forces stormed Uganda in retaliation for an attack by Amin's troops. Saudi Arabia offered him...