CLUELESS CARTER
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- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
CLUELESS CARTER
STUPIDITY AND VANITY
By: Geoff Metcalf
"Stupidity talks, vanity acts."
--Victor Hugo
Former President Jimmy Carter's latest brain flatulence synthesizes
stupidity and vanity.
With age is supposed to come wisdom and gravitas...unless apparently you
are a myopic arrogant peanut farmer from Georgia who carries the
distinction of being the worst U.S. president in modern history.
Forget the 22% interest rates, 13% inflation, the Iranian hostage
debacles, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, his creation of the
Departments of Energy and Education as Cabinet positions, or his
refusal to allow the officer with the nuclear football to be near him,
and general 'cluelessness' of the 39th President of the United
States...
Former President Carter's reported plans to meet the exiled leader of
the militant terrorist group Hamas in Syria is WAY over the top.
Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations committed to routinely
pouring gasoline on any and all smoldering embers in the Mideast.
Without naming him, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice criticized
Carter. "I find it hard to understand what is going to be gained by
having discussions with Hamas about peace when Hamas is, in fact, the
impediment to peace," Rice said at a press event with German Foreign
Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
And Rice is not the 'Lone Ranger'. This is not just a proclamation of
neo-con policy dogma. It is an empirical fact: Hamas IS the problem...
not even remotely near or interested in a solution.
"Hamas is a terrorist organization," Rice said, repeating the Bush
administration's explanation for why it will not meet with members of
the group. Duh!?!?
The State Department has already (twice...not once, but TWICE) advised
(counseled, recommended, cajoled) Carter against meeting any
representative of Hamas. Such a meeting would be a big gift to all
terrorists and the first public contact in two years between any
prominent American figure and Hamas officials. It would, according to
a letter from DEMOCRATS, "confer legitimacy" on a group that embraces
and endorses violence.
However, notwithstanding admonitions from the State Department AND a
letter from Congressional democrats, Carter apparently intends to flip
them all off and drape himself in his 2002 Nobel Peace Prize mantle
despite his own party's aggravated angst.
As if Democrats didn't have enough problems between the warring
presidential wannabes and serial gaffes of their other posturing
former U.S. president, Carter has refused to accept overwhelming
facts, advice and counsel that would impede him from another foray
into international photo opportunism.
Here is another unsolicited gift from the democrats to their
septuagenarian rival in November.
Several Democratic members of the House apparently plan to forward a
letter to Carter Monday urging him to reconsider his scheduled meeting
with leaders of Hamas during his next visit to the Middle East. Reps.
Artur Davis of Alabama, Shelley Berkley of Nevada, Adam Schiff of
California and Adam Smith of Washington state asked Carter to drop the
planned meeting.
The letter said "we believe that your efforts to forge peace in the
region will be overshadowed by this meeting." It said Carter's meeting
could "confer legitimacy" on a group that embraces violence.
Barack Obama's pledge to meet with Iran's president, Ahmadidijad is
strategically a bad idea. However, at least the neophyte Obama seeks
to meet with the President of another country. Carter ought to know
better. The fact that he either doesn't comprehend the import of
meeting with terrorist leaders suggests either his reasoning is
impaired or he flat out doesn't care about gifting terrorists with a
humongous public relations gift.
Carter is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis and yet he
seems intent on not only insulting the core values of his classmates
and country, but jazzed with a misplaced hubris that he, and he alone,
can mitigate the fundamental terrorist dogma of an organization
committed to destroying the very essence of Duty, Honor, Country that
remains integral to our military.
Former House Speaker New Gingrich accuses Carter of "strategic
stupidity", but Carter's sins are worse that stupidity.
Notwithstanding the personal foibles of individual men, all former
Presidents carry the life long burden and responsibility of
representing 'the office of the president'. It is more than the
perception of courtesy that traditionally former presidents defer (or
remain silent) on their successor's policies which may contradict
their own deep felt opinions.
Nixon's paranoid conniving, Bush senior's myopia, Bill Clinton's hound
dogging, and even the late Gerald Ford's balance challenges all are
trumped by gravitas of 'former President'. It shouldn't matter what
former President's do or say beyond history books and academic spade
work. But it does...especially on the international geopolitical stage.
Carter's administration and their serial strategic incompetence is
history. Better men have tried to mitigate and fix the damage that
administration wrought on the world.
The latest Carter book is 'A Remarkable Mother' about his mother,
Lillian. Frankly, Carter would be better off promoting the book and
abandoning quixotic quests that exceed both his grasp and
comprehension.
Once upon a time 'Miss Lillian' (who was a remarkable woman) said,
"When I look at my four children sometimes I say to myself, Lillian,
you should have stayed a virgin."
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Geoff is an author and talk show host. He is a ninth generation
commissioned officer in the U.S. Armed services, a former Green Beret,
and retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel. Geoff hunts down the stories
the rest of the media ignores and exposes them for public scrutiny. He
is also Editor of CalNews.com. He is a regular columnist for Ether
Zone.
We invite you to visit his website at: geoffmetcalf.com
Geoff Metcalf can be reached at: geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Published in the April 14, 2008 issue of Ether Zone.
Copyright (c) 1997 - 2008 Ether Zone.
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