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J.R. Dunn on Jimmy CarterSaturday, May 3rd, 2008
In American Thinker. This is a story that really needs to be told.
Carter was indirectly responsible for putting the mullahs in power in Iran (kicking off the violent confrontation between Jihadism and the West in the process). He was directly responsible for handing Nicaragua to the Sandinistas (Carter refused to sign off on a plan to replace the dictator Somoza with a government of moderates) and Zimbabwe to Robert Mugabe. (Abel Muzorewa, the centrist opposition figure first elected president, was pushed aside with Carter’s acquiescence and a new election arranged that Mugabe was guaranteed to win.)
Carter’s weakness for goons has had horrendous historical consequences. Khomeini’s takeover of Iran led to a major war in which millions died, the birth of two terror organizations dedicated to the annihilation of Israel, the deaths of thousands of others across the world — including hundreds of Americans — and the encouragement of the Jihadi terror movement. The Sandinista takeover resulted in chaos across Central America for over a decade and the slaughter of thousands of Nicaraguans, including a large number of Miskito Indians in a process indistinguishable from genocide. Zimbabwe, once one of the richest states in Africa, is today an economic basket case suffering chronic famine and one the lowest life expectancies in the world. The end game is being played out now, with a distinct possibility of a climax to rival in horror and blood those of Rwanda and Cambodia.
Carter learned nothing from this, nothing even from his own unprecedented humiliation by the mullahs he helped put into power, who waited until the exact hour of Ronald Reagan’s inauguration to release the American hostages they had held for the better part of Carter’s last two years in office. To this day, he continues embracing killers, repeating the process endlessly as if, eventually, it’ll come out the way he pictures it in his heart of hearts, in some impossible lion-and-lamb reconciliation. But it always ends otherwise, in disgrace for himself and misery for third parties. Yet he cannot see it.
Dunn lists all this in substantiating something I’ve noticed about Carter, what he calls his “proclivity for thugs.” Across a third of a century, Carter has indeed been consistent in this way. What causes this?
This weakness is often found in educated men, who, apparently out of fear that they’ve missed out in experiencing some of life’s rougher aspects, strike up acquaintances with hard-edged figures they encounter.
Makes perfect sense to me. Blame…America…FIRST.
H/T to fellow Webloggin contributor Bookworm. Credit for the (original) image goes to John Cox, of Cox & Forkum fame.
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