THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
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Volume IV, Issue # 161, December 16, 2002
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JIMMY CARTER: DUMBER THAN A BOX OF ROCKS
By Alan Caruba
Let's just say it and get it over with. The most recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Jimmy Carter, is dumber than a box of rocks.
He is the quintessential Liberal without the slightest grasp of reality.
"But, Alan, he was the President of the United States", you say. That's right, and the good citizens of this nation voted him out after just one term because they quickly came to the conclusion he didn't have a clue about either domestic or foreign affairs.
The various despots of the world took a look at Jimmy and instantly knew they had nothing to fear. In 1979, his failure to support to the Shah of Iran led to the rise of the Islamic jihad that threatens the world today. The Shah was overthrown by the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose gang of Muslim bullyboys took U.S. diplomats hostage and held them for 444 days! It wasn't until President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office that they were freed. To this day, I am convinced he let the Iranian mullahs know he would blow Tehran off the face of the map if they didn't turn our diplomats loose. Later he would bomb Muamar Quadaffi of Libya, who has been conspicuously careful ever since.
In his book, In the Shadow of the Ayatollah, William J. Daugherty, a former Marine who joined the CIA and was among those held hostage by the Iranians, noted that "Iran under the Shah commenced an extensive modernization program, while adopting a staunchly pro-West, anti-Communist political posture." When Carter withdrew his support, the Shah was forced to flee and the fires of Islamic fanaticism were lighted, leading ultimately to 9-11. Iran, today, is among President Bush's triumvirate of the "Axis of Evil." Iranians, to their credit, are in the streets seeking to overthrow the ayatollahs who deny them the freedoms we take for granted.
Carter also presided over the "return" of the Panama Canal to Panama. The Red Chinese moved in, purchasing facilities at both ends of the Canal built with U.S. dollars and protected for years by U.S. troops. Our control of this most strategic facility between the North and South American continents should never have been abandoned. Carter "negotiated" with the North Koreans, thinking, as all Liberals do, that if you're just nice enough to Communists, they will keep their word. Today, North Korea continues to threaten South Korea, Japan, and American national interests, but now it does so with missiles and a nuclear program. This isn't about 20-20 hindsight. This is about Carter's abject stupidity and Bill Clinton's treachery.
In accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Carter identified the United Nations as the one institution capable of maintaining the peace, ignoring the historic fact that it has been U.S. strength that has enforced whatever peace there is in the world. It was U.S, troops that restrained North Korea when it invaded South Korea. Thousands of our troops remain there. It was U.S. troops that ended Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. The list of U.S. peacekeeping is long, but the United Nations has never insured any peace in its 55 years.
"War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children," said Carter. Wrong. Utterly, totally wrong! Harry Truman, the President who thwarted the North Korean invasion in the 1950s said it best. "Freedom is still expen- sive. It still costs money. It still costs blood. It still calls for courage and endurance, not only in soldiers, but in every man and woman who is free and who is determined to remain free."
There have always been good wars. If the French and Austrians had not stopped the invading Islamic armies in past centuries, all Europe would be speaking Arabic today. If the allies had not stopped the armies of Nazi Germany, we would be speaking German today and the Japanese would control all of Asia. The general who led the allies in World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower, later to serve as U.S. President, said, "We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid."
Carter is both weak and timid. His words condemn him, but while accepting the Peace Prize, he condemned President Bush's policy of preventative intervention in Iraq, a nation that has defied the UN for more than a decade. Had Hitler's ambitions not been thwarted in the 1930's, many millions more would have died than actually did die in Europe, North Africa, and the North Atlantic during World War II. Had we not dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end the war in the Pacific, the U.S.A. would have suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties in a drive to invade and occupy the Japanese homeland. If we do not learn the lessons of history, we are condemned to repeat it.
Let the Swedes give out their meaningless Peace Prize to the likes of Jimmy Carter and let the rest of us prepare for a new war whenever and wherever the forces of evil seek to destroy freedom.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
American Government & the U.S. Presidency
The Threat of Radical Islam
More on the Threat of Radical Islam
War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Akan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center (www.anxietycenter.com). He is the author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS, THE UNITED STATES, both available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maple- wood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2002 Alan Caruba
Reprinted with Permission of Alan Caruba
Reprinted from ACaruba@AOL.Com
December 15, 2002
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