Posted on 04/20/2006 5:41:33 AM PDT by Dark Skies
Everybody’s playing the blame game these days. The current target is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems to be standing in for President Bush – the man who his enemies say is responsible for everything that’s gone wrong since the Biblical flood. (“Bush lied about the need to build an ark.”)
South of our borders we have a nut job running oil-rich Venezuela and threatening to do all kinds of nasty things to us. In North Korea we have another nut job building nukes and rattling sabers, and in Iran there’s still another whacked-out leader threatening to blow Israel off the map, for starters.
Believe me, Rummy had nothing to do with any of that. Nor did George Bush. If you’re looking for someone to point the finger at, look no further than James Earl Carter. Every one of these problems can be laid at the door of the Georgia peanut farmer and self-anointed evangelist for world peace, understanding, goodwill, and promoter of universal love-ins with dictators who hate us.
Let’s begin with Iran, a boiling cauldron of hatred for everything associated with Western civilization. Recall that when Jimmah took office Iran was ruled by a strong ally of the United States, the Shah. Like most Middle Eastern potentates, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, ruled with an iron hand. Under him, Iran was not the kind of democracy we’re now promoting for the Middle East.
The Shah, however, was also the staunch friend and ally of the United States. He saw to it that the oil kept flowing in our direction, and kept his military in good-enough shape to protect our interests in the area.
But the Shah somehow offended Brother Carter’s exalted view of the inherent goodness of a mankind freed from the strictures imposed by dictatorial rules. With a wink and a nod, he arranged to have Pahlavi replaced by an exiled mullah - the Ayatollah Khomeini - who in Carter’s view would be a moderate leader who would democratize Iran.
What Carter got for us was a Muslim fanatic seething with hatred for everything Western, who without blinking an eye spat on our national sovereignty when he took over the United States embassy in Tehran and held 52 American hostages for 444 days, until the U.S. came to its senses and elected my dad Ronald Reagan to replace the hapless Jimmy Carter.
Thanks to Carter, Iran today constitutes a grave threat to the United States and to world peace. He allowed the creation of an Islamic Republic bent on imposing the most repressive form of Islam on the entire world.
Then we can turn to Venezuela, now locked in the grip of a Castro-clone and fervent communist Hugo Chavez, who is creating a heavily armed communist dictatorship on our southern doorstep. When Chavez faced a recall election Cater was on hand to monitor the election, which turned out to be rigged to elect Chavez from the very start. Despite overwhelming evidence that the Chavez victory was the result of rampant vote fraud, Mr. Carter put his stamp of approval on it, declaring it to have been fair and honest. Carter kept Chavez in office.
In 1994, when Bill Clinton was facing down North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung, father of current dictator Kim Jong-Il, he sent Carter to strike a deal on his development of nuclear technology. Speaking of the dying murderous dictator, Carter said he found him "vigorous, intelligent, surprisingly well-informed about the technical issues, and in charge of the decisions about this country," and added, “I don’t see the [North Koreans] are an outlaw nation."
The deal Carter made allowed the North Koreans to work behind the scenes to build nuclear weapons which now threaten world peace. When he came back from North Korea he told CNN’s Judy Woodruff, “I think it's all roses now.... “
I agree with Jack Kinsella who once wrote in the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest that “Jimmy Carter holds the hands-down record for being the worst ex-president the United States has ever known. His post-presidential meddling in foreign affairs has cost America dearly, both in terms of international credibility and international prestige.”
21% interest rates
I was a framming carpenter working in Fort Wayne,IN when the prime hit 13%. The was the end of that job. For the next few years, every time I drove through Chicago, there was not a construction crane in site.
The only thing I credit Carter with was ruining the ecconomy so bad that I decided to go to college and stuck with it untill I graduated. By then Reagan was president!
"Are you better off now than you were 28 years ago?"
It seems everybody thinks Carter was a worse President than Clinton. While Carter may have been the second or third worst Clinton still takes the cake. Remember the FBI files, the punitive IRS audits, the perjury, the dirty tricks like killing Kathleen Willy's cat, the Vince Foster pseudo-investigation, the Chinese contribtions exchange for nuclear secrets, the Civil Case fixing, the Easter Lewinsky...
Clinton never gave us that sinking feeling of knowing that we were no longer the great nation we used to be, that was associated with the Carter years. It was a very depressing time in our history. I still watching Columbia take off after Reagan got in office. My heart soared right along with it. We were back on our feet.
In 1994, when Bill Clinton was facing down North Korea’s Kim Il-Sung, father of current dictator Kim Jong-Il, he sent Carter to strike a deal on his development of nuclear technology.
Carter went on his own and really screwed things up. Klinton was a joke as well, basically giving North Korea the ability to go nuclear, but Klinton never "sent" Carter.
Furthermore, Jimmy Carter did not want Khomeini installed, but was dangerously ignorant not to support the Shah or even grant him amnesty into the US, especially when the Shah needed medical attention.
South of our borders we have a nut job running oil-rich Venezuela and threatening to do all kinds of nasty things to us. In North Korea we have another nut job building nukes and rattling sabers, and in Iran there’s still another whacked-out leader threatening to blow Israel off the map, for starters.
Believe me, Rummy had nothing to do with any of that. Nor did George Bush."
Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."
Thanks to George 76 for this great post.
"I agree, but I don't think we've gotten the bill for the Clinton years, yet....."
I don't agree 100%. The bill arrived with the first WTC bombing in 1993, thence through numerous attacks secondary to Clinton's fecklessness, culminating in the September 11, 2001 islamic attacks. Will things get worse? Who's to say, but I'd say we have so far paid dearly for the "Clinton Years".
Jimmy Carter damaged the United States during his Presidency with long lasting consequences. Amazingly, Jimmy Carter contiues to damage the United States during his ex-Presidency. Jimmy Carter was truely the worst man ever elected President of the United States of America.
However, Jimmy Carter appointed Paul Volkler Chairman of the Federal Reserve whereupon the Chairman defeated inflation, stagflation, and economic malaise through monetary policy. I am sure Jimmy Carter regrets the appointment.
You got that right. The only thing I'd want to do on ibn Qarter's grave is take a good long leak on it. The man is not only a contemptible boob, he is a vile, wicked little man.
Hey folks--what about da wabbit!!!! First time I've seen an ibn Qarter post and not heard about his brave naval engagement against that hostile bunny.
I'm old enough to remember what it was like to have Jimmy Carter as President. He was a hopelessly inept, pathetically ineffectual President. Although he didn't create many of the terrible problems the country faced back then, he made all of them worse than they had to be.
I have no love for Carter but to continue my prior rant...the Mogadishu disaster, the Haiti disaster, the African apology tour, the Sudanese aspirin factory attack, the phony Normandy photo op, the refusal to take custody of Osama Bin Laden, World Trade Center, 1993, The U.S.S. Cole, The Waco disaster, Johnny Chung, John Huang, Charlie Trie, "don't ask, don't tell", Elian Gonzalez, The African Embassy Bombings...
Never forget.
I cannot find a single thing he did as president that didn't immediately turn to complete and utter crap.... There is nothing he did that won't haunt us for at least 100 years, mark my words. Why this man has ANY credibility is beyond me. His own brother said if it weren't for subsidies, he couldn't grow peanuts for a profit.
A person would have to be an idiot to think this is the face of a moderate man. But then, Jimmy is an idiot.
It goes back further than that. Remember the trouble with Russian troops in Iran after WWII. Mossadegh was open to an alliance with the Soviet Union. The connection between Moscow and Teheran is the reason why Iran is on the verge of becoming a nuclear power. Evidently, Russia is trying to revive the cold war, not only here but by reviving an alliance with the Chinese.
Re: your #43. The antics of Clinton PALE against the treachery of the PeanutMan.
re: What WAS he thinking?
I know! It was an absolutely stunning display of ignorance on Ford's part. While I can appreciate the difficulty and stress involved in debating, Ford's response was so incredibly stupid that there is absolutely no excuse that can be made for him.
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