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@whiteking910 No one knew the extent of what was happening in Ceaucescu. Every US President regarded him as a friend because he didn't fall in line with Moscow. Now you can say what you will about Carter's relationship with him, but where is your criticism of Nixon and George H.W. Bush who both visited Ceasucescu in Bucharest and to use one of your words "fawned" all over him. As for Poland, Carter met with Lech Welesa the opposition leader and made the Communists mad in doing so.
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@whiteking910 Carter is the one that convinced Ortega to have a free election without using fear and intimidation tactics. Ortega subsequently lost the election and upon hearing that Ortega might be changing his mind about accepting the will of the people, I'm not sure how this underminded US policy? If anything Carter ensured that Democracy would be honored and given a chance in a nation that could've easily ended up being another Communist satellite in our hemisphere.
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President Carter got the peace prize too. You know Obama was nominated for the Nobel Peace prize twelve days after taking office. Upon acceptance of winning it, Obama was praised by the committee, "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy". . They also gave the peace prize to Yasser Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the best known terrorist organization on the globe. This is like giving it to David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the KKK.
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Allen West 2012
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But he's a nonpartisan underminer. On President Bill Clinton's watch, he visited war criminal Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia and opposed American military intervention, which would soon halt ethnic cleansing. He visited Kim Il-Sung, the dictator Stalin picked for North Korea, and called it "tragic" that the International Atomic Energy Agency had (correctly) reported violations. Carter helped give them a 10-year breathing space to build their nuclear weapons program.
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Post-presidency, Carter consistently undermined our nation's foreign policy. He fawned on Nicaraguan ruler Daniel Ortega; Ortega himself now repudiates what he did back then. He lobbied in the U.N. Security Council against the U.S. plan to free Kuwait, and urged our Arab allies to abandon us days before the war. National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft said, "If there was ever a violation of the Logan Act, prohibiting diplomacy by private citizens, this was it."
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As president, he praised the shah for making Iran "an island of stability" because of "the love which your people give you." Iran was soon our implacable enemy. He toasted Poland's Stalinist henchmen as "enlightened leaders" protecting human rights. He said of Ceausescu, later executed for his savage rule of Romania, "Our goals are the same . . . enhancing human rights."
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Yet Carter met with them last month and emerged declaring they would recognize Israel's right to exist. Perhaps his reckless rogue diplomacy had for once accomplished something? I thought, wait till tomorrow.
It didn't take that long; in a few hours Hamas responded: They would never recognize Israel. Did Carter lie to the world? Maybe, but I prefer to think he was lying to himself, as he has foolishly done before.
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Hamas happily claims responsibility for the murders of hundreds of Israeli citizens over the years. Israel sometimes tragically kills civilians, because combatants hide among them. Hamas targets noncombatants.
Hamas seized control of Gaza last year, after Israel's withdrawal, through vicious attacks on moderates in the Palestinian Authority, so the P.A. condemns them, just as Israel and the U.S. do. Most nations, including Arab ones, call Hamas terrorists.
Overall, Scowcroft said, "his political judgment was just awful." But it was consistent: He coddled dictators. During his recent visit to the Middle East, Carter told the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz, "When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that's the dictator, because he speaks for all the people."
whiteking910 3 years ago
whiteking910
I agree with you about the attitude of carter.
What was his motive: show -- living -- ego guilt?
No matter what he was up to?
He probed into the Middle East unknown that both Israel and Hamas loath to keep this NO PEACE NO WAR status pending as long as they can. Crisis=Opportunity
Mind you a lot of worldwide interests bank on Arab Israel conflict. They are Siamese fighters got to be kept in separate aquarium.
Give me one conspiracism: Arab oil + Israel brain hmmm god forbid
obaidkarki 3 years ago