Jimmy Carters legacy of war.... ......No one summed up this abysmal Carter legacy of war and terror better than the late Christopher Hitchens, who wrote the following in Slate back in May of 2007: I once had quite an argument with the late Sen. Eugene McCarthy [the liberal Democrat from Minnesota], who maintained adamantly that it had been right for him to vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980 for no other reason. “Mr. Carter,’ he said, ‘quite simply abdicated the whole responsibility of the presidency while in office. He left the nation at the mercy of its enemies at home and abroad. He was the worst president we ever had.” Hitchens added: In the Carter years, the United States was an international laughingstock. This was not just because of the prevalence of his ghastly kin: the beer-sodden brother Billy, doing deals with Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi, and the grisly matriarch, Miz Lillian. It was not just because of the presidents dire lectures on morality and salvation and his weird encounters with lethal rabbits and UFOs. It was not just because of the risible White House Bible study sessions run by Bert Lance and his other open-palmed Elmer Gantry pals from Georgia. It was because, whether in Afghanistan, Iran, or Iraq — still the source of so many of our woes — the Carter administration could not tell a friend from an enemy. His combination of naïveté and cynicism — from open-mouthed shock at Leonid Brezhnevs occupation of Afghanistan to underhanded support for Saddam in his unsleeping campaign of megalomania — had terrible consequences that are with us still. Its hardly an exaggeration to say that every administration since has had to deal with the chaotic legacy of Carters mind-boggling cowardice and incompetence. Amen, Christopher. Amen. Make no mistake: The hard fact of the matter is that Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan have made in the Middle East, have all had to deal with Jimmy Carter’s legacy of war, weakness, and incompetence. spectator.org/articles/59687/jimmy-carters-legacy-war
Posted on: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:29:22 +0000
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