Posted by
Right Viewpoint on Sunday, July 06, 2008 10:35:49 PM
he was certainly the poorest president in my lifetime."
Gerald R.
Ford
"C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute."
It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake.
Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe (1761 - 1840)
Barely
a years has passed during the years Jimmy Carter was in White House without some
new his "mistakes / crime" bringing to
mind Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe's comments on hearing of Napoleon's
execution of the Duc d'Enghien in 1804.
Carter's Foreign policy:
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1978, Iran.
Facing an Islamist revolution, the Shah of Iran sought help from the United States. Iran occupied a strategic place in U.S. foreign policy toward the Middle East, acting as an island of stability and a buffer against Soviet penetration into the region. The
Shah was pro-American ... Carter ordered the aircraft carrier Constellation to the Indian Ocean but ultimately supported the "
regime change"... Khomeini and his followers swept the country, taking power on February 12, 1979.
The Carter's "regime change" (or "Iranian Revolution") precipitated the
444 days Iran "
hostage crisis", which would last for the rest of Carter's presidency. In 1980, Carter planned Operation "
Eagle Claw", which was meant to free the hostages in Iran using the Special Forces units. The mission was a failure ...
- 1979, Aphganistan
Carter & Brzezinski engineered the Soviet invasion, and, with the support of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the PRC, he created a campaign supporting mujaheddin in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which were run by Pakistani security services with financial support from the US and Britain.
This policy had the explicit aim of promoting radical Islamist ... In 1998, Brzezinski was interviewed by the French newspaper Nouvel Observateur on the topic of Afghanistan. He revealed that Carter support for the mujaheddin had started before the 1979 Soviet invasion and was indeed designed to prompt a Soviet invasion:
Le
Nouvel Observateur: When the Soviets justified their intervention with
the statement that they were fighting against a secret US interference
in Afghanistan, nobody believed them. Nevertheless there was a core of
truth to this...Do you regret nothing today?
Zbigniew
Brzezinski: Regret what? This secret operation was an excellent idea...
On the day when the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote
president Carter, in essence: "We now have the opportunity to provide
the USSR with their Viet Nam war..."
Le Nouvel Observateur: And also, don't you regret having helped future terrorists, having given them weapons and advice?
Zbigniew Brzezinski: What is most important for world history? ... Some Islamic hotheads or the liberation ...?
Le
Nouvel Observateur: "Some hotheads?" But it has been said time and time
again: today Islamic fundamentalism represents a world-wide threat...
Source: Le Nouvel Observateur's Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski. Published 15-21 January 1998 (Translated by Jean Martineau)
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Now
the same
Brzezinski works for
Obama. He wrote: "
Obama is clearly more
effective and has the upper hand. He has a sense of what is
historically relevant and what is needed from the United States in
relationship to the world."
(Washington Post, August 25, 2007; Page A03 )
After 9/11 both Carter and Brzezinski were criticized for their role in the formation of the Afghan
mujaheddin network, some of which would later form the Taliban and would shelter Al Qaeda camps:
1980, Cambodia
In January 1980 the Carter started funding Pol Pot ...
The extent of this support was $85m from 1980 to 1986. During his time in power Pol Pot imposed a version of agrarian
collectivization whereby city dwellers were relocated to the
countryside to work in collective farms and forced labour projects,
conceived as a restarting of civilization in "Year Zero".
The combined effect of slave labour, malnutrition, poor medical care
and executions had an estimated death toll of 750,000 to 1.7 million.
His regime achieved special notoriety for singling out all
intellectuals and other "bourgeois enemies" to be killed.
Skulls of Pol Pot's "Khmer Rouge" victims.
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Carter's Domestic Policy:
30 years ago
Carter won and brought to Americans:
21 percent interest rates,
13 percent inflation
.
What can we expect from
Obama, if he will win this elections?
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