Jimmy Carter: Citizen Traitor By Erik Rush
The Bear on Apr 21 2008 at 8:24 am | Filed under: Foreign Policy, Global War on Terrorism
Carter’s arrogance has no definable bounds. Despite his trademark mild, gentlemanly countenance, Carter’s elitist, autocratic tendencies – to which insiders have attested were quite present during his administration – have led to his divergence from executive decorum exhibited by demeaning criticism of the Bush administration and its policies in the Middle East. For years now, the “private citizen” has been flying around the world giving meaty-lipped testimony in international circles to the gross deficiencies of America.
Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama was shrewd enough to declare that he would not meet with the Hamas leader given the opportunity. He knows of course that by the time he is sworn in (should this dangerous travesty actually come to pass), Khaled Meshaal will already have been legitimized by Carter. Terrorist power players around the world will also have had their beliefs as regards America’s weakness further validated.
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If America must be reminded of just how bad things could get under the leadership of a wholly incompetent president, it needs only to recall the disgraceful and humiliating four years of the Carter Administration, beginning in January of 1977. Within the span of a single presidential term, Carter managed to thoroughly decimate the U.S. military, while simultaneously telegraphing the nation’s vulnerability along with his absolute reluctance to exercise American power to defend American interests. The real “Carter Doctrine,” a wretched mix of appeasement and capitulation, demonstrated his weaknesses of character so flagrantly that the entire world lost any respect for, or fear of this nation. It was really no surprise then that while the militant Islamists who overtook Iran in 1979 declared war on the entirety of the civilized world, it was Carter’s America that they felt sufficiently emboldened to attack.
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Jimmy Carter in Egypt: Gaza Arabs “Starved to Death” by Israel
Former US President Jimmy Carter says Palestinian Authority Arabs living in Gaza are being “starved to death” by Israel.
Carter made the claim speaking with students at the American University in Cairo on Thursday, saying that Gaza Arabs are receiving fewer calories per day than people in the poorest regions of Africa.
“It’s an atrocity, what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza,” said Carter. “It is a crime… I think it is an abomination that this continues to go on.”
The former president has not actually visited Gaza; Israel declined to authorize his use of the Israel-Gaza crossings and there were no indications he requested an entry from Egypt.
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