For those of you not entirely certain about where to stand on a
complex, dynamic situation in Egypt, fear no more: Jimmy Carter has
waded in to add both clarity and certainty.
“I think that the Muslim Brotherhood is not anything to be
afraid of,” Carter
told a wide-eyed, admiring university audience in Austin,
Texas. The man who presided over the replacement of the Shah with
the world’s worst theocratic-terror state confidently predicted
that the Muslim Brotherhood “will be subsumed in the overwhelming
demonstration of desire for freedom and democracy.”
If you weren’t entirely sure about whether to fear the
collapse of Hosni Mubarak, be afraid now — very, very afraid.
Jimmy Carter’s record on these things does not exactly inspire
optimism.
As a service to my fellow Americans, I thought I’d offer
this quick review of Carter’s appraisal of previous regimes,
dictators, and murderers, from the Soviet Union to the Middle East
to the Far East. Let’s start with the Evil Empire:
In the immediate days after the Soviets invaded
Afghanistan in late December 1979, President Carter responded with
shock and a sense of deep, palpable betrayal. After all, he and
Leonid Brezhnev, just six months earlier, at the Vienna Summit, had
literally hugged and kissed. Why would the Soviets do
this?
Carter was hurt, betrayed by that kiss.
“My opinion of the Russians has changed most dramatically
in the last week,” he told a speechless Frank Reynolds of ABC News.
“[T]his action of the Soviets has made a more dramatic change in my
own opinion of what the Soviets’ ultimate goals are than anything
they’ve done in the previous time I’ve been in office.”
The Democratic president had long lamented America’s
“inordinate fear of communism,” from which he had hoped to
unshackle the nation. And now, just like that, his communist
friends were annihilating Afghanistan.
Carter had called them just that, “friends,” assuring
Americans the first week of his presidency that the Soviets
“seem to be our friends.” It was a theme he carried
throughout his presidency, telling reporters during a June 26, 1978
press conference, “We want to be friends with the
Soviets.”
At the same time, Jimmy Carter had tried to warn Americans
about their smugness, about unwarranted feelings of American
exceptionalism, especially compared to the Soviet Union. “We’ve got
our own problems in this country,” Carter lectured, especially
compared to the USSR.
What were these problems? Where, for example, were
Americans inferior to the Soviets? Carter had a reliable source:
the Soviet ambassador. Carter called attention to what Soviet
Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin instructed him: “He said to me, ‘At
least in the Soviet Union, our women have equal
rights.’”
Ah, yes. No doubt, the Soviets trumped us
there.
Of course, one place where women were about to lose rights
was Iran, which fell to the Ayatollah and his mullahs at almost the
exact time the Red Army rifled through Afghanistan.
This, too, for Carter, was completely unexpected.
On December 31, 1977, he had stood aside the Shah and given a
toast: “Iran, because of the great leadership of the Shah, is an
island of stability.”
One year later, that island of stability erupted into a
volcano, one named the Ayatollah Khomeini. A reporter asked Carter
if the Shah would survive. “I don’t know,” said the president. “I
hope so.”
Appleby| 2.18.11 @ 6:45AM
Why is Carter still being quoted and followed and listened to? Why is he being covered at all? Should he not have shuffled into the line with Lyndon Larouche, Harold Stassen and Ralph Nader as people who need not be noticed?
Ned| 2.18.11 @ 10:52AM
Obvioulsy because he's an ex-president of the United States... and until very, very recently the acknowledge (not by him) WORST president of the modern era.
Remember that, prior to Carter, accepted protocol for former presidents was that they did not directly criticize their successors, especially their immediate successor.
shoppegirl | 2.18.11 @ 4:58PM
So often I wish W would have spoken up against his enemies, but so far only CARTER has sunk that low...
W has a lot of class compared to CARTER.
Alan Brooks| 2.18.11 @ 11:44AM
Only in the '70s could Carter have happened.
The strangest thing about it was his sister hanging out with Larry Flynt. And then Flynt got shot- probably so someone could make a film about it two decades later.
ENOUGH ROPE| 2.18.11 @ 12:23PM
Recognize that Obama is a saboteur who wants America to become a third world country. Obama regards America and its upper and middle classes as oppressors of the world and the poor in the same way that European colonial powers exploited their colonies.
Obama is an HABITUAL LIAR in order to bankrupt and destroy America. He is a SMILING COBRA.
stu| 2.18.11 @ 6:51AM
Jimma Catta- the ultimate USEFUL IDIOT
Alan Brooks| 2.18.11 @ 12:55PM
Brezhnev hoped by kissing Carter he would turn into a handsome prince.
But he turned into a frog instead.
irish19| 2.19.11 @ 1:05AM
Exactly which one was hoping to turn into a prince?
Alan Brooks| 2.19.11 @ 3:18PM
Best question ever asked at AS-- little to choose between the two.
You Irish are no slouches.
Alan Brooks| 2.19.11 @ 3:21PM
... up with the Irish!
oldfart| 2.18.11 @ 7:33AM
Everytime he opens his mouth he shows he really was, is and will always be a bloddy fool.
hardcard| 2.18.11 @ 7:56AM
carter is more than a fool, he is evil.
Mike D.| 2.18.11 @ 7:58AM
Jimmy Carter, still bitter at Americans for their stupidity of throwing him out. AKA, histories human roll of toilet paper. Jimmy never met an anti-american tyrant or dictator @ss he couldn't kiss.
skip| 2.18.11 @ 12:04PM
I thought the reigning worst president of alltime (the messianic one cannot officially take the crown until time spent in office is completed) was thrown out by a killer bunny.
Larry| 2.18.11 @ 7:58AM
Jimmy Carter is the father of modern day terrorism. I'm surprised that the Iranian mooolahs haven't erected a statue in his honor. Sadly, with the empty skirt who now occupies The White House, the in-lieu president, Carter will go down in history as only the second worst president.
Larry| 2.18.11 @ 8:00AM
What's bad for Israel is ALWAYS good for Jimmy Carter and his anti-America friends and fellow travelers.
Occam's Tool| 2.18.11 @ 1:08PM
On foreign policy:
Clint= Carter.
Ron Paul= Carter.
Dennis Kucinich=Carter.
Clint| 2.18.11 @ 6:31PM
Tool Job= Jonathan Pollard.
Tool Job =Ben Ami Kadish.
Tool Job= Arlen Specter.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.11 @ 7:53PM
Sorry, I don't like Jonathan and I've actually HAD a security clearance---I was a VA doc, Terrorist Catamite Clint. Nor am I Arlen Spector---when you were still soiling your diapers, I was in YAF.
Occam's Tool| 2.18.11 @ 5:17PM
What's bad for the USA always makes Jimmah smile. Nazi maggot.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.18.11 @ 8:22AM
Folks,
just a reminder.
The other day I heard a "news-person" say:
"The Muslim Broterhood only represents 25 % of the men in Egypt!"
Hokay, let's do a little math. Egypt population 80 million.
Women and camels 40 million.
Egyptian men 40 million x.25.........
Folks, that is TEN MILLION MURDEROUS LUNATICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(what could go wrong?)
Larry| 2.18.11 @ 9:03AM
Ken,
Be correct please. They're not "news-persons". They're jourrrrrnalists. :-)
Curly Smith| 2.18.11 @ 9:09AM
To put that 25% in a different perspective, only about one-third of the colonists supported the American Revolution.
In any system that doesn't allow gradual change you'll find a small group of highly motivated individuals who'll do all the heavy lifting. The rest of the population either benefits from the status quo or doesn't think that change would result in any meaningful difference and will support whoever is winning. Public opinion polls can be useful in truly representative societies but they're utterly useless in repressive or dictatorial regimes. The idea of an "Arab Street" is an absurd media concoction designed to give cover to dictatorial anti-American regimes.
As you note, it's important to know who's actually driving the bus. Are they like our Founding Fathers who'll give the power they captured to the people or will they keep if for themselves and their cronies? If you evaluate all of the revolutions, the number that actually benefited the people can likely be counted on one hand, and you could probably skip the thumb.
To put the 25% in an even worse perspective... only about 20% of Americans self-identify as Liberals. That means our government is strongly and resolutely Conservative... right?
Larry| 2.18.11 @ 9:11AM
Heck. Even Comrade Golfer is identifying himself as a conservative. He's Ronald Reagan reincarnated. At least the lamestrams seem to think so.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.11 @ 8:13PM
I just read the article. Carter was boasting that his proudest achievement was that he never fired a bullet, missile, or dropped a bomb....
even when it was desperately required that he do that.
Tina B| 2.18.11 @ 8:47AM
God bless America, Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her,
Through the night with the Light from above.
From the mountains to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam,
God bless America, my home sweet home.
God bless America, my home sweet home.
Sam Levi| 2.18.11 @ 9:21AM
It seems to me that the Egyptians are trading one tyrant for 10,000,000 tyrants. Do they do as poorly in math as our public school systems does?
Yukon Jack| 2.18.11 @ 9:35AM
In 1995 I spent a week in Albany, Georgia, with my friends from the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, to help rebuild after the devastating flood of the Flint River. On the Wednesday of that week, we took the day off and visited nearby Americus, head office of Habitat for Humanity, the Civil War Prisoner Camp at Andersonville and, of course the home town of Jimmy Carter, Plains.
The ego mania of Jimmy was astonishing to see. Hig School, Post Office, restaurant, public buildings all named after Carter. Hopefully after the drunken brother, not the treasoneous former President.
As we were driving around in my Pontiac Sunbird, equipped with Ontario (Canada) plates, we see this old couple walking on the middle of the street, followed by a yellow poncho-wearing entity. My friend looks back and exclaims: "Oh my God, it's President Carter!" So, I stop.
The poncho-wearing entity, showing respectable distance allowed to shake hands with the former President and his wife and then we were on our way.
To their credit the foreign license plate of my car and my beard made no difference.
Too Many Tims| 2.18.11 @ 9:44AM
WHen they made Jimmy they broke the mold.
lol wut?| 2.18.11 @ 10:20AM
thank goodness
Ned| 2.18.11 @ 10:59AM
"They" didn't break the mold, Jimmy broke it himself. In his God-like omniscience he had determined that the mold was flawed. He was right.
John| 2.18.11 @ 12:31PM
Carter is right . the brotherhood threatens no one. as far as I'm aware the brotherhood hasn't dropped nuclear weapons on civilians, gassed six million in Europe , invaded Iraq causing displacement and murder of 10 million Iraqis , ethnically cleansed six million palestinians from their home, created an arpatheid state in ME, backed vile dictators in ME, occupied other peoples contries and filled them with bases etc etc etc. I could be wrong. I'm saluting the Arab revolution. Change you can believe in. Peace to all.
Occam's Tool| 2.18.11 @ 1:11PM
The Brotherhood were allies with the people who gassed 6 million. They trained the people who killed 3000 on 9/11.
John, go back to reading Mein Kampf and exchanging love letters with Clint.
W| 2.18.11 @ 5:05PM
His name is not john, probably muhamed. maybe this is osama, he has been hiding as a lefty blogger on the lefty websites, and now had decided to infect this site.
welcome muhamed, peace.
Clint| 2.18.11 @ 6:19PM
There She Goes Again !
Israel Firster AgendaBoy Tool Job is Obsessed with Tea Party Patriot Clint, and Tea Party Senator Dr.Rand Paul, And Tea Party Favorite Dr.Ron Paul & Our Tea Party Mission Statement, because We Don't Crawl On Our American Knees to His Personal Israel Firster Agenda.
You're A Slandering Little Coward Tool Job.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.11 @ 7:54PM
No slander "sand monkey" ass. Truth is an absolute defense, Terrorist Catamite.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.11 @ 8:06PM
Go to THOMAS, Clint. Give me a list of FOREIGN POLICY bills in which Ron Paul voted differently from known left wing looney Dennis Kucinich. I doubt you could find 10 that did not involve the Mexican Border, which is his only correct foreign policy issue. Back up your words or shut up. I've checked dozens---Kucinich and Paul, brothers in arms on foreign policy. I'm sorry truth hurts, Clint. Want to publish a list of 30 or 40? Kucinich was thinking of having Paul run with him for VEEP, for goodness sake.
So, in conclusion, Ron Paul, while he has excellent ideas on many issues regarding fiscal policy, is completely worthless on foreign policy and terrorist fighting. And not just on issues involving Israel. The man is a gormless twit.
Since you idolize him, and by your own virulently antisemitic comments (starting with "sand monkeys," and going on to a virulent assault on the concept that Jews win more Nobel Prizes than their population should allow), it follows that you, too, are a gormless twit---but I prefer the term "Terrorist Catamite," since it more eloquently describes your admiration of people who rape little girls and throw acid in the faces of schoolkids. You like to snuggle with them. You are a foul villian, Clint, and a foul terrorist villein, as well.
Now go away, Clint, and play with your own fecal matter like you were doing when you typed your passage, you scrofulous rabid dog. The grownups are talking.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.11 @ 8:10PM
I must note a mistake I've made, Clint. No one else here talks to you because you support child rape. (You support Ron Paul, who supports terrorists, who support child rape---that's the progression) I think I'll stop talking to you, too, if I can. I've made my points, and you do ooze slime.
Occam's Tool| 3.2.11 @ 8:16PM
Under the truth is an absolute defence against slander argument: on Ron Paul and Kucinich, from The Plain Dealer---
If Kucinich wins nomination, Ron Paul could be his veep
Published: Sunday, November 25, 2007, 7:03 PM Updated: Sunday, November 25, 2007, 8:25 PM
By Jean Dubail, The Plain Dealer
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Acworth, New Hampshire -- Call it the liberal-libertarian ticket, where left meets right and Democrat Dennis Kucinich picks Republican Ron Paul to be his vice president.
Kucinich, the Cleveland congressman running in a longshot bid to become president, suggested it himself today.
"I'm thinking about Ron Paul" as a running mate, Kucinich told a crowd of about 70 supporters at a house party here, one of numerous stops throughout New Hampshire over the Thanksgiving weekend. A Kucinich-Paul administration could bring people together "to balance the energies in this country," Kucinich said.
It would create a stunning, if dizzying, blend of beliefs, wedding two politicians who hold different views on abortion rights, the role of government in providing health care, and the use of government in fostering -- or hampering -- the public's greater good. Those are among the reasons it would never work, said a spokesman for Paul, a congressman and doctor from Texas.
"Dr. Paul and Rep. Kucinich are friends and there is a lot of mutual respect," Paul communications director Jesse Benton said in an e-mail when asked whether a running-mate spot on the Kucinich ticket would be attractive to Paul. "They have worked, and will continue to work, together on the ending the war and protecting civil liberties.
"However, Ron wants to substantially cut the size and scope of the federal government. There are too many differences on issues such as taxes and spending to think a joint ticket would be possible."
Kucinich and Paul are gadflies to their parties' establishments. Kucinich challenges Democrats to stop cozying up to corporate interests, while Paul challenges Republicans to shed the trappings of big government.
Both frequently cite the Constitution as providing the authority for their agendas. Paul never votes for legislation unless the measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution, his campaign says. Kucinich keeps a pocket-size copy of the Constitution handy, brandishing it to invoke authority for such proposals as the impeachment of Vice President Cheney, one of Kucinich's signature issues.
Speculation of a Kucinich-Paul ticket has surfaced on the Internet, where it also has been shot down. But Kucinich's wife, Elizabeth, did not dismiss it when asked about it after a recent Democratic candidates' debate in Las Vegas. Speaking to the website RawVegasTV, she called Paul "a great truth-teller," adding that Paul has "voted 100 percent right on the war."
Today, her husband said, "Think of how you could unite the country, having a Democrat and a Republican on the ticket."
I think that's all you need to know about Ron Paul on foreign policy.
John| 2.18.11 @ 7:29PM
The brotherhood was an organiation set up to oppose British imperialism in Egypt. the rest is tittle tattle of history. Regean was more responsible for 9/11 then any one else. He gave billions to the mujahadin. From which sprang al Qaeda. bin Ladin & co are rogue CIA agents. QED. Facts you can believe in. Peace.
W| 2.18.11 @ 8:05PM
Johny, maybe you are a rogue CIA agent and you don't even know it. peace.
George| 2.18.11 @ 8:10PM
So it is all the fault of the infidel Reagan, and the Muslims have no control on what they do. Reagan made the fly the planes into the Towers and kill innocent people, Reagan made them push Klingenhofer,who was in a wheelchair, into the ocean, Reagan makes you behead journalists, Reagan makes you stone women to death.
Thanks for educating us, It is all Reagan's fault.
John| 2.19.11 @ 4:25AM
Yeh, this is what happens when you arm train brainwash fanatics.
Ray| 2.19.11 @ 3:58PM
Which is exactly what CARTER did after the USSR invaded Afghanistan. The policy to arm and train the Mujaheddin (the precursor to al quada) was a CARTER policy.
Ray| 2.19.11 @ 3:58PM
Which is exactly what CARTER did after the USSR invaded Afghanistan. The policy to arm and train the Mujaheddin (the precursor to al quada) was a CARTER policy.
skip| 2.18.11 @ 2:38PM
If only Nasser and Sadat were around we could ask them if the brotherhood threatens no one.
tatosian| 2.19.11 @ 2:32AM
Johnboy...
Didn't the brotherhood, after attacks on the Syrian government, hide amongst the population of Hama (in 1982) knowing that Assad had promised to wipe the brotherhood out?
And didn't the brotherhood escape while assad was slaughtering the upwards of 20,000 citizens of hama?
The brotherhood's responsible, in part, for those dead innocents right? Or does that allah guy forgive them (and the palestinians, al quaeda, hizbollah, muqtada's mahdi or any and every soldier of allah who hides behind or attacks unarmed non combatants) for their duplicity and cowardice?
I mean, if not for your muslim brotherhood, assad would never have gone into Hama right?
Peter| 2.18.11 @ 12:34PM
How can an article reviewing the contributions of Jimmy Carter not mention the Hugo Chavez recall election? If Carter had not been duped into certifying that election, Chavez might have been stopped in his tracks.
Too Many Tims| 2.18.11 @ 1:25PM
Funny thing. It turns out Billy was the smart brother.
skip| 2.18.11 @ 2:35PM
I still got a can of Billy Beer, given to me by someone.
I decided I would try out the vaunted product just the one time only, but only after I found one act his brother the idiot liar-in-chief did that was beneficial to the nation.
That can is still unopened.
Seek| 2.18.11 @ 1:52PM
Jimmuh Carter has political wisdom on the level of an 8th-grader. Fortunately, his time on earth -- he turns 87 this year -- is limited.
shoppegirl | 2.18.11 @ 4:57PM
I doubt he has that much political wisdom..
Occam's Tool| 2.18.11 @ 5:12PM
I was a hell of a lot brighter than him as an eighth grader.
skip| 2.19.11 @ 1:20AM
Jimmy 'killer rabbit' Carter is looking forward to passing on so he can explain to God all the things God has done wrong.
Brian | 2.18.11 @ 2:47PM
Ah yes; the wisdom of Carter. I remember well picking up the morning paper and seeing the wreckage of American helicopters in the Iranian desert. That was probably the moment I associate with the Carter presidency. Now we have Carter II. History is indeed repeating itself. I can only take consolation in the reality of the inherant yin and yang of American politics. It required a Carter to bring us a Reagan. Obama will help to usher in a new era of strong conservative leadership.
Occam's Tool| 2.18.11 @ 5:15PM
One can but hope for....Bolton for President.
Larryk| 2.18.11 @ 3:12PM
Jimmy Carter...
"He's a pedantic, pontificating, pretentious bastard, a belligerent old fart, a worthless steaming pile of cow dung, figuratively speaking."
shoppegirl | 2.18.11 @ 4:56PM
Sounds about right.....
irish19| 2.19.11 @ 1:16AM
Why figuratively?
DaPicayune| 2.18.11 @ 3:45PM
As a US Naval Officer, this twit Carter fought against the German Nazis. Well, go look up "Grand Mufti" on Google, Dhimmi, and you'll learn that the MuzziBruthas were part of Hitler's Third Reich, and had their own Arabic SS Division, to help Adolf complete his "final solution" w/ the Jews. Iran was aligned with Hitler as well. Now that would make these terrorist thugs your enemies, right?
Did you learn nothing of the world at the Academy?
But I doubt that even this historical gem of a fact will deter your arrogance and stupidity. My uncle, who graduated Annapolis with Carter, told me what a pric* Carter was at the Academy.
Fortunately, it is you, Dhimmi, who will soon be subsumed by History as a misguided, bungling fool who grew old and bitter after one term.
Oh, and thanks to you and your Habitat for the GIMMIES, we now have toxic Chinese drywall in our homes! That's right, your HFH idiots were the first to buy it and bring it into Florida after the 4 hurricanes there in 2004. Hey Dude, buy cheep - get cheep!
Every time I hear that you have run your mouth again, I am reminded of Reagan's retort to you and Mondale before he destroyed your political career in a landslide: "Well..... there you go again!"
Occam's Tool| 2.18.11 @ 5:14PM
I'm sure that Hyman Rickover was very proud of him (not).
Robert Moss| 2.18.11 @ 3:54PM
Don't forget Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan elections.
Christopher Holland| 2.18.11 @ 4:29PM
Gotta give it to liberals- they think that the Tea Party is a fascist organisation and a threat to democracy, but the Muslim Brotherhood is a good thing and is nothing to be frightened off.
shoppegirl | 2.18.11 @ 4:55PM
FORGIVE ME... I did vote Carter (my last mistake in voting).. I was young, stupid , naive...
I ask your forgiveness.. :)
Conservative and never going back...
nilac| 2.18.11 @ 5:13PM
For some people old age brings some wisdom; then again "here is Jimmy", Nobel Peace price winner who constantly wants to remind the American People why after four years of ''sucessful" presidency was not able to win anything but his own state of Georgia.
I hope this guy means something for his own family, cause he means nothing for this country.
tmk| 2.19.11 @ 7:40AM
Poor sad delusional Jimmy Carter! Rejoice in the fact that since the current administration has taken power, he is no longer the worst President in living memory, that honor now belongs to B. Obama. Please stick to building your substandard housing for humanity Jimmy, and leave the politics to the grownups.
Ray| 2.19.11 @ 4:04PM
It should be said that, just 12 years after making his famous campaign statement that the USSR is no threat to us, that actually became true, when the Soviet Government self-destructed. Of course, that's not what Jimma was predicting. He was predicting beneficial relations with the Soviets, kinda like what he's predicting today with the Muslim Brotherhood.
I wonder if the Muslim Brotherhood will suffer the same fate of that of the Soviets? If I were them, I'd be asking Jimma to shut the hell up as he's obviously a jinx!
Richard Baker| 2.19.11 @ 8:52PM
Is he still breathing? When he finally passes the country will be rid of a Class-1A buffoon, at long last.
Vita Men| 2.20.11 @ 10:21PM
----The long, tired legacy of Wall Street set-up,
FREEMASONIC banking conceived and enabled
----'Communism'. (YES, ALLLLLLL the major Bolsheviks were funded from Wall Street and
were high level MASONS to a manl ----EVEN STALIN himself we now learn!).
MEANWHILE ----about that HUAC meets NUREMBERG agenda for such like 'behind the scenes' folk right here, right now...
BackToBasics| 2.21.11 @ 4:05AM
Carter's wife, Rosalyn, was said to be a very cold and angry person. If this is true and it seems likely to me; it no doubt has a lot to do with his mushy personality.
But as bad as he was as a president, he is still better than Obam is.
Richard Baker| 2.21.11 @ 6:59PM
Vita Men:
Be quiet or I'll sacrifice a goat on your doorstep.
Reebok | 8.11.11 @ 3:22AM
is good
العاب بنات | 4.11.12 @ 5:01PM
John, go back to reading Mein Kampf and exchanging love letters with Clint.