Thanks to my co-blogger in crime Dan for forwarding me this column from the Jerusalem Post. (Dan, I’m surprised you didn’t take a crack at it first!)
It is a completely devastating and, most importantly, factual assessment of how Jimmy Carter can arguably be considered the “Father of the Iranian Revolution.” Brilliant!
The Left in America is screaming to high heaven that the mess we are in in Iraq and the war on terrorism has been caused by the right-wing and that George W. Bush, the so-called “dim-witted cowboy,” has created the entire mess.
The truth is the entire nightmare can be traced back to the liberal democratic policies of the leftist Jimmy Carter, who created a firestorm that destabilized our greatest ally in the Muslim world, the shah of Iran, in favor of a religious fanatic, the ayatollah Khomeini.
Let’s look at the results of Carter’s misguided liberal policies: the Islamic Revolution in Iran; the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (Carter’s response was to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics); the birth of Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization; the Iran-Iraq War, which cost the lives of millions dead and wounded; and yes, the present war on terrorism and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
When Carter entered the political fray in 1976, America was still riding the liberal wave of anti-Vietnam War emotion. Carter asked for an in-depth report on Iran even before he assumed the reins of government and was persuaded that the shah was not fit to rule Iran. 1976 was a banner year for pacifism: Carter was elected president, Bill Clinton became attorney-general of Arkansas, and Albert Gore won a place in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
In his anti-war pacifism, Carter never got it that Khomeini, a cleric exiled to Najaf in Iraq from 1965-1978, was preparing Iran for revolution. Proclaiming “the West killed God and wants us to bury him,” Khomeini’s weapon of choice was not the sword but the media.
The bottom line: Carter believed then and still does now is that evil really does not exist; people are basically good; America should embrace the perpetrators and castigate the victims.
Trust me, if we didn’t try to be “pithy” here I would have cut/pasted the whole article. It is a damning indictment of Jimmy Carter as the sellout of America that he was (and still is).
Jimmy Carter yesterday labeled President Bush’s policy of sidelining Hamas (a terrorist group) as “criminal.” Yet it is Carter’s criminal legacy that has left thousands of Americans dead in its wake since 1979.
Is it too late for Americans to demand a War Criminals trial for President Carter for creating the mess we are in today?
How about simply charging him with treason?
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Carter is killing all the gays in Iran, too. Personally. (What nonsense!)
Oh, and now there is a crackdown in Poland: http://365gay.com/Newscon07/06/062007poland.htm. Are you going to want us to bomb them, too?
sean-of-the-lower-case-clan-
don’t be so juvenile.
Bruce, I was going to reference this piece in my JCBOMA post 😉
Carter has a plot for his grave that faces mecca.
Y no nos dejamos olvidar su desmadre que se hizo´aqui´en America Latina. (And let´s not forget the mess he made here Latin America. To begin with Samosa was no democrat but at least he was friendly to the U.S and was a Harvard grad. Carter chose to replace him with the Sandinistas and their leader, Daniel Ortega. Ortega after having lost in a valid election painted himself as a new kind of Sandinista, (like Clinton was a new kind of Democrat) and was elected back into power. Now he´s playing “kissy face” in Iran and has visited his buddy in Caracas to reinforce claims that the demonstrations against Chavez are being orchestrated by the “imperialist” in Washington. Carter swore that the oppostion had no grounds to complain about the December referendum on Chavez´s presidency. He claims it was completely transparent. Here in El Salvador he gave the green light to the FMLN to overthrow the duly elected government. The president was of the Partido Coalicion Nacional, which in philosophy would be similar to the American Independent Party (AIP). Thanks to Ronald Reagan democracy is alive and well here. The Republican president here enjoys a 68% approval rating. Here the name Carter is a dirty word, as it should be around the world. As I read somewhere, Carter hasn´t met a leftist or terrorist dictator that he didn´t like.
As I said before, if people would use public transportation two days a week and stay home and have a backyard or patio barbecue on the 4th of July maybe we can force the price of crude oil down so much that Iran, Gaza, Venezuela, can plant peanuts and have a cash crop to offset the loss of petro dollars.
Sean, when the Poles attack the US and its Allies than perhaps you will have a valid point. Until such a time you are truly making an ass of yourself. This isn’t the first time that Carter’s big mouth has coddled terrorists and dictatorial regimes hostile to the USA. Hamas is a terrorist organization that even makes others like Fatah look “moderate”.
Juvenile?
Really GP, until you lose your middle schoolesque “treason” rhetoric I hardly feel that you are in a position to judge others on their youthful exuberance.
Further, the Shah was a crummy dictator. And I am not referring to his brutality but simply his polices and his pulse on his people. He had no clue how to lead and just assumed his mandate to rule was secure. It was very easy for him to be disposed by a smart charismatic leader.
To blame Carter for that is rather odd.
Gil, the brutality of Khomeini & his successors makes the Shah’s brutality (bad as it was) seem almost tame by comparison.
Shah was never considered legitimate by population – installed by CIA in 1953, replacing a popular democratic, secular gov’t. He did himself in by alienating every segment of population:
1. 1975, he dissolved two-party system, replacing it with a single party, the monarchy party, with mandatory contributions.
2. Shopkeepers – when inflation hit economy, Shah calls them “profiteers,” and “enemies of the state;” 7,750 jailed,
3. Students – When they protest SAVAK in 1977, his troops kill 72 – many similar events,
4. Overt corruption/poppy cultivation
In 1979, from Camp David, Carter/Brezinski gave Sullivan/CIA green light to “suppress the revolution” using “extreme force.” This failed. See National Security Archives.
Yes, Dio… it seems there wasn’t a military operation in Iran that Carter couldn’t screw up.
#10 said:
Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who fled Khomeni in 1980 with the shirts on their backs.
Yes we in Los Angeles have reaped the benefits of a very productive, intelligent group of immigrants- both Muslim and Jewish.
For some reason lefties can’t see them as refugees, since in the 25 years they have been here, they have rebuilt their wealth and their very supportive community structure here.
#12 – “For some reason lefties can’t see them as refugees, since in the 25 years they have been here, they have rebuilt their wealth and their very supportive community structure here.”
Of course not, Leah. It wouldn’t fit the libtard template of oppressed, dependendant-upon-the-government welfare recipients that they like to impress upon us.
After all, why give so much hope to others who do the same thing, i.e. flee an oppressive regime. It was only five years after the end of the Vietnam war that the Iranians fled their homes to avoid persecution.
Come to think about it, both sets of refugees have created in this country what you have cited: a supportive community structure and wealth and opportunity for themselves and for others. Gee, go figure.
Regards,
Peter H.
Speaking of Vietnamese, my son’s best friend is at Stanford with him. She is the daughter of boat people. They were lucky to be plucked from the water and spent 2 years in a real refugee camp. Had they accepted Belgium, they would have gone there immediately. But they had the good sense to wait for an American visa. Btw, she is a good conservative, and her two older sisters are both working on higher degrees.
Unlike the Iranians, her parents have not made big money here in America. But they have three daughters they can be very proud of.
And they are not alone, they are very representative of their community.
And why did they become boat people? Probably had to do with our congress cutting off all aid to South Vietnam in 1975, and causing the death of 2,000,000 Vietnamese and Cambodians, along with pain and suffering of countless others.
So I take it, #’s 11-13, that the Shah’s policies would have been acceptable for you to live under yourselves, as long as he was America’s guy?
One political party, anti free market, drug exporting, persecution of Armenian Christians, 30% annual inflation, torture in Iran all OK with you as long as he cooperates with US?
Present regime is bad, absolutely, but there’s a strong argument to be made that, but for the US-led coup in 1953, the current government would not be in place. It was a reaction to the prior govt…
And, many Iranians living in LA now were students at USC or UCLA, etc. that never went back. I went to school with many. I lived in Tehran 3 years & my father helped get people out in ’79-’80.
Sounds like what the libs would consider presidential material. Especially the Christian persecution.
Diogenes, I think someone blew your lantern out.
Regards,
Peter H.