There’s an old saying that goes: “Let your life serve as a warning to others”.\u00c2\u00a0 In Jimmy Carter’s case, that’s an understatement.\u00c2\u00a0 In the “worst president in history” category, it’s a tie between Jimmy Carter and Bubba Clinton. Neither was keen on national security, and both were dismal failures at foreign policy. They were however, adept at smooth-talking minorities and poor into believing that age-old myth of the “Democratic party being for the “working class”.\u00c2\u00a0 All one needs to do is study the history of the Unions in this country to see the result of that lie.
\nThe former Georgia peanut farmer never met a dictator he didn’t like.\u00c2\u00a0 His approach to foreign dictators is stomach-turning.
\nOf Saddam Hussein, Carter said: “Even if his effort is successful [Colin Powell addressing the U.N. Security Council] and lies and trickery by Saddam Hussein are exposed, this will not indicate any real or proximate threat by Iraq to the United States or to our allies.”\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, Carter wanted a “a sustained and enlarged inspection team, deployed as a permanent entity until the United States and other members of the U.N. Security Council determine that its presence is no longer needed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nEvidently, 12 years of Hussein’s nose-thumbing trickery wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t convincing.
\nDuring his disastrous administration he declared that Yugoslavia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Marshall Tito was someone \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who believes in human rights\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, and told Nicolae Ceausescu that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our goals are the same: to have a just system of economics and politics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
\nThanks to hapless foreign policy decisions which resulted in the abandonment of the Shah, mishandling of the Iranian hostage crisis, and botched rescue attempt, this myopic simpleton was responsible for thousands of deaths, and left the door wide open for a succession of Iranian Ayatollahs and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
\nHis antics with the former Soviets weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much better.\u00c2\u00a0 During Leonid Brezhnev\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tenure, the Soviet Union expanded militarily and engaged in several coups funded by the Kremlin. Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reputation as a foreign policy wimp encouraged the Russians to install Communist regimes in Vietnam, Angola, Somalia, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Grenada, Nicaragua, and South Yemen.\u00c2\u00a0 All the while, the American military was underequipped, underfunded, and underpaid.
\nAs if Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bumbling as President weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough, it pales in comparison to his post-Oval Office behavior.\u00c2\u00a0 He cuddled up with Daniel Ortega\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sandinista regime, wrote letters to members of the United Nations opposing any interference with Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s aggression in Kuwait, traveled to Pyongyang and praised Kim Il-Sung, announcing that that Pyongyang was a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bustling city where shoppers pack the department stores\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s great news of the rest of North Korea; since they have virtually no electricity and a diet consisting of grass soup.
\nIncluded on Carter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s past and present A-list list of friends:\u00c2\u00a0 Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Syria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s late Hafez al-Assad, Ethiopian tyrant Mengistu Haile Mariam, and former Haitian butcher and junta leader Raul C\u00c3\u00a9dras.\u00c2\u00a0 It reads like a who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s who of global despots.
\nHe refuses to let go of the office he was kicked out of in 1980.\u00c2\u00a0 His free-lance anti-American diplomacy is an embarrassment and a disgrace.\u00c2\u00a0 His arrogance and stupidity doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just affect himself. The problem is that he gives aid and comfort to America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enemies and there is a segment of like-minded sycophants who endorse his grotesque behavior.
\nDo us all a favor, Jimmy.\u00c2\u00a0 Stick to building \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Crack houses for humanity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.
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