Jimmy Carter and his Legacy of Despair
Posted on 04/21/2008 12:14:51 PM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
We just don’t get it. The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess.
The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.
Carter viewed Khomeini as more of a religious holy man in a grassroots revolution than a founding father of modern terrorism. Carter’s ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said “Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.” Carter’s Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, “Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.” Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of “impeccable integrity and honesty.”
The shah was terrified of Carter. He told his personal confidant, “Who knows what sort of calamity he [Carter] may unleash on the world?”
The fact of the matter is that Jimmy Carter has always hated America and has gone out of his way to coddle terrorists and the world’s worst tyrannical dictators. It is important to point out that, ideologically, Carter’s disdain for America is shared by the heart and soul of today’s “blame America first” Democrat Party (Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Obama, Cllinton, Murtha, etc…)Carter’s weakness and ineptitude largely enabled the Islamic Revolution and the Jihad against America. George W. Bush, in spite of his mistakes, has, at the end of the day, kept America free from terrorist attacks post 9-11.
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It's amazing that someone with such a disastrous legacy as the worst president ever, having engendered one of the greatest geopolitical catastrophes losses the West has ever sustained as Father of the Iranian Revolution would be otherwise shamed into eternal seclusion and utter degradation.
America has emphatically demonstrated its disdain for Carter,how it considers the Carter years to be an electoral freak show, a national nightmare it is loath to be reminded of, that this sick, demented, old, has-been, never-been can't seem to get through his head.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Of course, all of this can rightly be laid at his footsteps. The Shah wasn't good enough for him, but Hamas is? Go figure!
Jimmy Carter hates Jews.
Jimmy, these people seem to share your opinion of Mr. Peanut.
His treatment of the Shah was terrible..
Jimmy Carter and his Legacy of Despair
I remember those bad old days of imcompetent Carter. Never again! Clinton was almost as bad.
How did ex-President Carter like it when a former POTUS interfered in his playhouse? Anyone remember?
Carter is poison.
And don’t forget that he also gave away the Panama Canal, which is now in the hands of the Chi-coms..
"A strong case can certainly be made that no single president did more damage to America in as short a period of time as Jimmy Carter."
I'm sure a majority of Americans, certainly those old enough to have lived through the disastrous Carter administration, would agree. Jimmy Carter was an embarrassment as president and continues to be an embarrassment to America today, 28 years after being voted out of office.
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Carter's real and lasting legacy is that is a naive fool whose wishes and biases caused him to do immensely stupid things.
In the case of Iran, it's an established fact that the Shah and his regime were not a particularly shining example of freedom and good behavior. And Carter saw that, and said "he must go," failing to consider what would replace him.
That sort of short-sighted feel-goodism was the hallmark of Carter's foreign policy -- it was repeated (and exploited by the Soviets) countless times in Asia, Africa, and South America.
Peanuts was the last democrat to fool me(I was just 23 at the time).
The Shah was hated immensely in Iran and was going to fall eventually. However, Carter's naive stupidity took a bad situation and made it much, much worse by throwing everything into fast forward and giving Khomeini the opening he needed.
The entire Carter Administration was full of bumbling fools who had no business directing American domestic and foreign policy. We have been paying the price for their stupidity for the last 28 years.
In 1953, the CIA was reportedly involved in the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddeq, the premier of Iran. From my admittedly limited understanding of he situation, the US government wanted a pro-western government in Iran (that of the Shaw) rather than one sympathetic to the neighboring Soviet Union.
In other words, Jimmy Carter had little responsibility for a situation which actually began in 1953.
Would it be more correct to say that the much earlier overthrow of Mosadeq (sp?) by the CIA set this train in motion?
Thank you very much for providing this link.
I don’t consider myself to be as knowledgeable and erudite on this matter as I’d like to be but I’d say you’d find others who might not necessarily agree.
Jimmy and Andrew Young also brought the Zimbabweans Robert Mugabe in much the same fashion.
Well lets see, Harry Truman died on December 26, 1972. Dwight Eisenhower died on March 28, 1969. John Kennedy was assasinated on Novemeber 22, 1963. Lyndon Johnson died January 22, 1973. Richard Nixon resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974. Gerald Ford was too much of a gentleman to second guess the President. Guess it just didn't happen.
Instead peanut boy backed the Ayatollah Khomeini. You remember him; heis the guy who marched little children ahead of histroops to clear the land mines.
I cannot think of Carter without spitting on the ground.
My cousin is married to an Iranian she met in grad school and they were living in Tehran when the Shah was overthrown. They came back to the US ASAP.
I’ve referred to President Peanut Brain as the ‘Godfather os Islamism’ for over a decade now.
Oops. Jimmuh Cahtuh is the ‘godfather of Islamism’.
Worst president ever, bar none. (Not in any particular order):
1) Loss of the Panama Canal,
2) “feckless” boycott of the Olympics,
3) responsible for Khomeini’s rise to power (note that I did not say responsibilty for the revolution itself);
4) Sandinistas,
5) “Arab Cold War” (set the cause of comprehensive middle east peace back 30 years by brokering an ill-conceived separate peace between Israel and Egypt.
6) “National malaise”
7) double digit inflation
8) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, about which he did nothing other than (see #2, above)
9) “Lusted in my heart many times”
etc., etc....All in four, count ‘em, four years. And there are people out there who would be willing to elect Jimmah disciple Obama just to spite McCain? Are you out of your friggin’ minds?
1. the only people who HATED the late Shah were the Soviet backed Communists he prevented from seizing power and handing the country to the Soviets.
Some of the Iranian Tudeh (Communist Party) leaders have gone on record (Persian language TV) recently saying they never wanted political freedom “for the people” but political freedom for their “imported” ideas (from the USSR) so that they could complete their subversive activities and grab power with the help of the Soviets.
Purely selfish, not altrusitic motives many since claim in revisionist history.
2. Similarly, the supporters of Mossadegh (mostly liberal Socialists in mindset) were also miffed when their falsely lauded “nationlist” leader was prevented by the CIA and the West from handing the oil he nationalized to the Soviets.
Check out the facts at the link below. The coup was not to restore the Shah but to prevent Iran falling into Soviet hands. The Shah was just an available and trustworthy, still very young, ally to achieve this.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/03/bilingual-what-if-mossadegh-had.html
3. As to Carter himself, he is not simply an inept, idiotic man. He is an evil and vindictive one.
The British Foreign Ofice sent somewhere between 200 and 400 trained observers to the USA to monitor the election between Carter and Reagan to spot if the Soviets were going to pour in large sums of money to buy the election for Carter.
He was generally considered a Soviet/Communist MOLE and appears to be proving they were right with his penchant for Communist friends like Castro, Chavez, Ortega and others. And with Islamic Jihad a “virtual” Marxist organization using the name of a religion, his meeting with Hamas etc., underlines this.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2004/03/jimmy-carters-illegal-demands-on-shah.html
And for more insight check out this link.
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/02/did-it-my-way.html
Then finally, round up your knowledge of Khomeini with this exclusive article:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2004/03/who-is-ayatollah-khomeini.html
AntiMullah’s Alan and I both went through the Khomeini revolution and had access to top echelons of the Shah’s military, administration and intel agencies, so can speak with some authority.
Any questions for Alan (or me) can be sent to info@antimullah.com
BTW, if you still want more visual input, try looking through the three or four videos at:
http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/04/death-to-dictator-khamenei-mostly.html
What drives Carter in his vileness and lies? /rhetorical
I’m a contrarian on the subject of Jimmy Carter.
For me, the worst thing that happened under his watch, even worse than what happened in Iran, was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Kremlin rightly saw him as fatally weak and went into Afghanistan confident that Carter’s America would do nothing.
The Afghan war created Al Qaeda and Sunni Islamic fundamentalism as a real military force, and we’ll be fighting it for generations. Thanks, Jimmy.
Whadd’ya mean? What about the Olympic boycott?
Well done FARS, well done indeed.
And lest anyone forget, it was Carter and his National Security Advisor Brzezinski who instigated the 8-year Iran/Iraq War which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people who quite simply didn’t have to die.
Why did they do that?
Because the Buffoon from Plains was trying to put some pressure on Tehran as 1980 was more than half way gone, and the hostages were still being held prisoner by the Iranian terrorist ‘students’.
Before Carter got a footstool to reach the doorknob of the Oval Office, Iran was a steady and dependable ally, had NO hostile intentions towards Israel, and was a force for peace and stability in the Middle East.
After Carter was flushed down the ol’ toilet bowl by 44 States and Ronald Reagan in November 1980, Iran had been converted into an enemy of the U.S., the Soviets were raping and pillaging Afghanistan, and the Middle East was a cauldron, all thanks to that rabid sphincter muscle calling itself ‘Jimmy Carter’.
Thanks FARS.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2004850/posts?page=31#31
Carter: Hamas is Willing to Accept Israel as its Neighbor
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Posted on 04/21/2008 2:03:28 AM PDT by freerepublic_or_die
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004610/posts
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Thanks for the ping.
I’ve checked your page out and bookmarked it. Very interesting stuff there, though it probably requires some background on Iranian history and culture to understand. My studies concentrated on ancient iran and india so I have a little depth there; what I know of “modern” iran, however, is mostly through that and what several expatriate friends have told me. I’ve always been very interested in knowing more about Khomeini’s history.
Anyway, stuff like this is very important for people to know in the coming years. The dangers of a nuclear Iran under the current leadership are terrifying. But the possibility of rapproachment with the population of Iran holds promise. There was some chance, I thought, under President Rafsanjani, but it never materialized, or maybe it was a pipedream anyway. I have not heard anything about him in a couple years. I remember reading that Carter had the opportunity to work out a deal with Rafsanjani—who I believe at that time was a member of the non-clerical portion of the legislature; that might have prevented Khomeini from taking over. I could be all wrong though.
The material on the death of Mussa Sadr is also interesting and important as it sets out the “secret” history of the Ayatollahs’ ambitions to expand outside of Iran. Keep up the good work.
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Great Post potlatch!
“Dunce Fever”
Lol, I’ll take Travolta!
Besides, you already did the ‘dance thing’!
Thanks for the ping. Some interesting information.
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No Travolta .gifs here!
“Urban Cowboy”!
Yeah. I have a possible one but wouldn’t post it here.
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THAT’S a good thing...
Thanks for the ping!
Rafsanjani, a low level cleric and pistachio orchard owner who had hundreds assassinated all around the world was president before Khatami.
So many Iran names are similar - Khomeini, Khatami, Khamenei, I have to stop and think myself so realize how much harder it is for others.
You may not have noticed but the AntiMullah site has seven sub-blogs with links in the left hand margin column. The intention is to try to spread articles out so that they do not bury one another and some like Terror News are definitely subject specific.
http://terrornewsbriefs.blogspot.com/
currently has a very long extended Conflict & Terror post
People visit from all over the world and some spend OVER TWO HOURS browsing around some 1,000 pages a day. Normal Internet visits are good if they last ONE OR TWO MINUTES.
AntiMullah tries to post new articles daily in many if not all the sub-blogs and receives information from many sources - including exclusive ones both inside and outside Iran.
Bookmarking for daily visits would be a great idea if you wish to keep up with Middle East matters and a slant against the dangerous liberal politicians like Obama, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi etc., who put our country in danger with opinions similar to Jimmuh, the Idiot, Carter.
He has a right to those but should also consider what is best for our country and people, not just his whacky mindsets and Marxist views.
The site tends to speak its mind with focused opinions and has run into the Mullahs trying to obstruct it with very little success since it is hard to hack into Google.
Feel free to share the site with anyone you think would benefit. I try to do this for FReepers.
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LOL!
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