Jimmy Carter

I watched "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" this morning for some reason and he had ex-President Jimmy Carter on as a guest. Carter, of course, took the opportunity to attack President Bush and Israel in his own "golly-gee" way. The fact that Jimmy Carter was ever a President of the United States boggles my mind. I would be willing to term him as anti-American at this point. He often sides with America's enemies and attempts to undermine U.S. interests everywhere in the world, thus his popularity. If you don't believe me, let's look at some of this post-presidency forrays:

• Carter attacked Clinton on Haiti and North Korea initiatives.
• During the run-up to the Gulf War, Carter wrote members of the U.N. Security Council urging them to thwart the Bush administration’s effort. The word "treason" was actually used at that time in connection with Carter.
• Carter is self-serving and needing of praise. The ex-president has always considered himself screwed out of the Nobel prize, and he and his Carter Center have campaigned rather embarrassingly openly for it.
• In the 1990s, Carter became quite close to Yasser Arafat. After the Gulf War, Saudi Arabia was mad at Arafat, because the PLO chief had sided with Saddam Hussein. So Arafat asked Carter to fly to Riyadh to smooth things over with the princes and restore Saudi funding to him — which Carter did.
• The ex-president is known as Joe Human Rights, but he’s mighty selective about whose human rights to champion. If you live in Marcos’s Philippines, Pinochet’s Chile, or apartheid South Africa, he’s liable to care about you. If you live in Communist China, Communist Cuba, Communist Ethiopia, Communist Nicaragua, Communist North Korea, Communist . . .: screw you.
• While in office, Carter hailed Yugoslavia’s Tito as “a man who believes in human rights.” He said of Romania’s barbaric Ceausescu and himself, “Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and politics . . . We believe in enhancing human rights.” While out of office, Carter has praised Syria’s late Assad (killer of at least 20,000 in Hama) and the Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu (killer of many more than that). In Haiti, he told the dictator Cédras that he was “ashamed of what my country has done to your country.”
• In an interview with the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer last year, he said, “I don’t think that George W. Bush has any particular commitment to preservation of the principles of human rights.”

I could go on but I think that lays out a pretty good picture. The enemy of America or the enemy of Israel or the enemy of democracy is Carter's friend. Castro, Chavez, Ahmadinejad - misunderstood leaders that the United State unfairly attacks. Up until recently, there had been an unwritten understanding that former presidents do not attack the policies of current administrations. Carter has never followed that value. When compared, Clinton appears ideal.

Anyway, Carter favors a withdraw from Iraq (which, as I said, is desireable to everyone in both parties, it's just the means of withdraw -- victory or defeat) and for Iraq's neighboring countries to help maintain control in Iraq. So...who do you think is going to assume the control of Iraq when the U.S. leaves? It's not going to be Saudi Arabia...

Secondly, Carter favors taking a more pro-Palestinian look at the Israel but every politician is afraid to take that look. Carter often cites Israel's aggressiveness to their neighbors (who wage constant attacks on Israeli citizens) but fails to mention the numerous invasions into Israeli territory by neighbors that were meant to wipe Israel from the map. He also fails to recognize Iran's repeated promises to remove Israel from the Middle East.

So, I'm putting it out there: Carter is a treasoness, anti-American, anti-Semitic country bumpkin who packages his messages in a country boy style to avoid criticism. Carter will continue to undermine American values for as long as he can. It's a real crime.

Anyway, that's about it. I may write about the teamwork workshop tomorrow...nothing too exciting. I would recommend everyone head over to WVConfidential and read the WMITC Newswires that he submitted...very funny stuff if you want a laugh. As for me, I'm going to try to get over my Jimmy Carter experience.