{"id":55562,"date":"2014-10-01T13:22:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T17:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=55562"},"modified":"2014-10-01T15:15:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T19:15:05","slug":"still-clueless-after-all-these-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55562","title":{"rendered":"Still Clueless, After All These Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Time<\/span> today <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/jimmy-carter-says-he-would-have-defeated-reagan-had-he-been-more-manly\/article\/2554217\">has a short article<\/a> concerning perhaps the most incompetent President this nation has ever had.\u00a0 Like it\u2019s subject, the article is brief \u2013 and uninspiring.<\/p>\n<p>But it does have this little \u201cnugget of wisdom\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former President Jimmy Carter claimed Wednesday that he would have been re-elected and beaten Ronald Reagan in 1980 if had been more \u201cmanly\u201d in his dealings with Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Clueless One goes on to claim that his \u201cprayers were answered\u201d when \u201cevery hostage came home safe and free&#8221;, and that he\u2019d have been reelected if he\u2019d started a war. He implies that he took the moral high ground instead, and suffered the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Looks to me like Jimmy the Clueless is still fond of slinging some kind of \u201cnuggets\u201d.\u00a0 But I\u00a0 wouldn\u2019t exactly call what he\u2019s slinging here \u201cwisdom\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clue for ya, <em>Jimmy-boi<\/em> \u2013 \u201cmorality\u201d doesn\u2019t have a damn thing to do with why you allowed this nation to be humiliated by Khomeini\u2019s Iran. Rather, you didn\u2019t act more \u201cmanly\u201d <em>because you weren\u2019t capable of being more more \u201cmanly<\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You simply didn\u2019t have it in you<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why you weren\u2019t more &#8220;manly&#8221; in dealing with Iran. Period. So don\u2019t p!ss on our legs almost 34 years after the fact and tell us it\u2019s raining.<\/p>\n<p>Let me \u2018splain something else to ya, <em>Peanut-boi<\/em>. This nation is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">still<\/span> paying for your Administration&#8217;s clueless incompetence in the Middle East from 1977-1981. Even today that example of stunning, feckless foreign policy idiocy emboldens Islamist groups worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>And I haven&#8217;t even mentioned your impotent, hand-wringing, supine response to Russia&#8217;s invasion of Afghanistan.\u00a0 (Yeah, that &#8220;Olympic Boycott&#8221; really hurt those nasty Soviets, didn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 They pulled right out of Afghanistan the day it was announced &#8211; right?) \u00a0 Without that invasion, there&#8217;s no need to support any <em>mujahideen<\/em> &#8211; period.\u00a0 Your policies in Iran doubtless tipped the scales for the Soviets on making that grab.<\/p>\n<p>They <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knew<\/span> you&#8217;d stand by and do nothing effective.\u00a0 You&#8217;d already proven that in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Finally:\u00a0 though it will never be proven, I am convinced that had you not stood by with your thumb firmly inserted as the Shah and Iran fell to radical Islam 9\/11 would never have happened. A strong, friendly Iran would have been a much simpler and easier way to deliver US support to Afghan <em>mujahideen<\/em> than Pakistan. Without the need to use Pakistan as a conduit for that aid, al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban probably never happen.\u00a0 Hell, with a strong Iran friendly towards the US, the Soviet Afghan invasion IMO probably doesn&#8217;t happen at all.<\/p>\n<p>Put that in your \u201cpeanut jar\u201d and munch on it, Jimmy.\u00a0 And then, how about you just shut the hell up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Author&#8217;s note:\u00a0 apologies to Paul Simon.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time today has a short article concerning perhaps the most incompetent President this nation has ever &hellip; <a title=\"Still Clueless, After All These Years\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=55562\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still Clueless, After All These Years<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-jimmy-carter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}