Jimmy "Test of Wills" Carter is at it again

Nov. 26, 1979

See this unbelievable der Spiegel interview with Jimmy Carter.

On Hezbollah's war against Israel

SPIEGEL: But wasn't Israel the first to get attacked?

Carter: I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

On "the effectiveness of diplomacy"

SPIEGEL: What makes you personally so optimistic about the effectiveness of diplomacy? You are, so to speak, the father of Camp David negotiations.

Carter: When I became president we had had four terrible wars between the Arabs and Israelis (behind us). And I under great difficulty, particularly because Menachim Begin was elected, decided to try negotiation and it worked....

On Germans guarding the Israel-Lebanon border:

SPIEGEL: Should there be an international peacekeeping force along the Lebanese-Israeli border?

Carter: Yes.

SPIEGEL: And can you imagine Germans soldiers taking part?

Carter: Yes, I can imagine Germans taking part.

SPIEGEL: ... even with their history?

Carter: Yes. That would be certainly satisfactory to me personally, and I think most people believe that enough time has passed so that historical facts can be ignored.

Don't you think that HAS to be a misprint? a typo? a bad translation? something? He COULDN'T have said, in reference to the Holocaust-within-living-memory, that "historical facts can be ignored."

Not even Jimmy Carter could say such a thing.

... or could he?

"Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini? "No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders – about 150 of them – to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.

"The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.

"By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever."

-- Chris Ruddy, NewsMax May 2002

Comments

[Don Gambill]

Why does Jimmy Carter hate america so? He did everything in his power to destroy everything the United States has done in the world while he was in office. Everytime he opens his pie-hole something beyond stupid vomits out making him the darling of the looney left and making the rest of us ashamed that he is even an American citizen, much less a former inept President. He should be made to live in Safad, Nahariya, or Haifa then maybe this sanctimonious liberal might grow a backbone. I doubt it, once a jellyfish always a jellyfish. If he hates America so much maybe we could revoke his citizenship on the grounds of high treason. What a waste of good air.

[Stevin]

More proof that he is the most inept president ever. Even years after he left the White House, he remains an ignorant, terribly confused person.

[Tom]

Carter decided if he couldn't beat them he would join them. Next week Carter will implore the Congress to consider Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an allie in the WOT. Most likely dementia.

[Gene]

G_d has forsaken the Israeli people. In every other war Israel has been in since 1948 G_d has blessed the Israeli people with miracles to help Israel win, but not this war. Why? I believe it’s because of the tolerance that has been seen in Israel for homosexuality, BSDM, and other immoral behavior. Chronicles 24:20 New International Version (NIV) 20 Then the Spirit of G_d came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest. He stood before the people and said, “This is what G_d says: ‘Why do you disobey the LORD’s commands? You will not prosper. Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’

[Irene Solnik]

I am not surprised, an awful president and a worse human being. He should not be allowed to live in Israel. Let him live in an Arab country.