Posted by
Gretske on Sunday, June 24, 2007 8:01:48 AM
Former president Jimmy Carter has recently declared that the Bush
administration's foreign policy is the "worst in history," proving
that, as a historian, Carter was a great nuclear engineer. But, Carter
has an excellent reason for giving Bush the crown of thorns. It is
called "deflection." Anyone with young children is familiar with the
technique. You see Jimmy stealing a cookie and you begin yelling at
him. He says, 'yes, but Johnny took a piece of your cake!'
Carter is trying to re-direct the attention away from his disastrous foreign policy that is directly responsible for starting the mess in the Mideast today. His sins are many, but let's look at two.
First,
he took the high ground away from Israel by drawing a moral equivalence
between Egypt, who had instigated two wars, and Israel, who won those
two wars. This inane act enabled many of those countries who were
hesitating aligning with the Arabs because it might reveal their innate
antisemitism. Carter later proved his own antisemitism through his
actions and writings.
Second, Carter decided to put pressure
on the Shah of Iran because of alleged human rights violations. He had
to have known the situation in Iran when he pressured the Shah, and the
likely impact. He proceeded anyway, and as a result, he provided the
concrete block that broke the camel's back, and enabled the Islamic
revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini to succeed.
In handing Iran
over to Islamic extremists, James Earl Carter, the 39th President of
the United States accomplished something that centuries of Islam
struggle could not; he created the first Shi'ite government in history.
Thus, the most extreme flavor of Islam, the sect that yearns for the
battle of Armageddon so the 12th Imam can emerge from the well and slay
all non-Muslim, finally achieved the means to end the world.
Congratulations,
Jimmy, you may be judged by all history to have not only been the worst
president of the United States, but the worst head of state in history.