Posted on 11/24/2009 10:15:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
An idealistic president takes office promising an era of American moral renewal at home and abroad. The effort includes a focus on diplomacy and peace-making, an aversion to the use of force, the selling out of old allies. The result is that within a couple of years the U.S. is more suspected, detested and enfeebled than ever.
No, we're not talking about Barack Obama. But since the current administration took office offering roughly the same prescriptions as Jimmy Carter did, it's worth recalling how that worked out.
How it worked out became inescapably apparent 30 years ago this month. On Nov. 20, 1979, Sunni religious fanatics led by a dark-eyed charismatic Saudi named Juhayman bin Seif al Uteybi seized Mecca's Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest site. After a two week siege distinguished mainly by its incompetence, Saudi forces were able to recapture the mosque at a cost of several hundred lives.
By any objective account—the very best of which was offered by Wall Street Journal reporter Yaroslav Trofimov in his 2007 book "The Siege of Mecca"—the battle at the Grand Mosque was a purely Sunni affair pitting a fundamentalist Islamic regime against ultra-fundamentalist renegades. Yet throughout the Muslim world, the Carter administration was viewed as the main culprit. U.S. diplomatic missions in Bangladesh, India, Turkey and Libya were assaulted; in Pakistan, the embassy was burned to the ground. How could that happen to a country whose president was so intent on making his policies as inoffensive as possible?
The answer was, precisely, that Mr. Carter had set out to make America as inoffensive as possible. Two weeks before Juhayman seized the Grand Mosque, Iranian radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage.(continued)
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I guess, every 30 years, an idiot or buffoon has to come along to wake Americans to their senses.
The problem we have now is that the Obambie puppet
has many strings being pulled, and by those who make Jimmuh
look almost good by comparison.
ping for later read
A concise and excellent editorial about the past and present Barack OCarter.
BHO= Goober II
Carter and Obama have one thing in common:
Each hates this country and seeks to destroy it.
They are both currently active in this endeavor. Bottom line.
“Each hates this country and seeks to destroy it.
They are both currently active in this endeavor. Bottom line.”
There is no doubt that Obamie wants to destroy America.
As for peanut, I think he has a mental imbalance with a bitter hate for many things such as loosing the second term.
He may also hate America, but not the way Obama and his puppet masters do. They are PURE EVIL.
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This seems to be a duplicate thread, but there are some interesting insights on this one as well.
I don’t think Carter hates America the way the Lyin’ King does.
However they do share a common hatred, IMNSHO.
I think they BOTH hate the Yoo-know-Whoooos.
Yaroslav Trofimov in his 2007 book "The Siege of Mecca"It's excellent, BTW.
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