The Discerning Texan

All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
Wednesday, August 30, 2006

War is Over!! Peace in Our Time! Khatami wants to meet with.....Jimmy Carter! Jimmy Carter????

Yes, you heard correctly: the annointed Goebbels....er, I mean "representative" of the very heart and soul of State Sponsored Islamist-Naziism, the Islamic "Republic" of Iran -- one of the most vile men from the most vile regime on the face of the planet; a regime that has sworn to wipe Isreal from the map;has killed hundreds of thousands of its own dissidents, etc. -- wants to meet with the worst President in US history by a light-year: the man who personally legitimized the stolen elections that paved the way for the Chavez dictatorship in Venezuela; the man who via "negotiation" and "diplomacy" as only Jimmy can do it, arranged for Madeline Albright and the Clintons to GIVE AWAY to Kim Jong Il sophisticated nuclear technology--in exchange for a "promise" not to build nuclear weapons in North Korea. (that one REALLY worked out well, didn't it...) Cm'on now: this is the guy who won the Cold War by...not participating in the Moscow Olympics! Right? This is the man who stood mano-a-mano to Iran when it took all those hostages... When the going gets tough, Carter....well, he goes somewhere. (there simpy has to be French blood in Carter's family tree somewhere...)

And so Iran now wants to talk to Jimmy: perhaps thay too will "promise" him "Peace in Our Time"--in exchange for a few hundred million US, perhaps they too will "promise" to stop everything, pull all their proxies out of Lebanon and Syria and Iraq, join hands with us and sing Kum-Bah-Ya; they will PROMISE to stop--cross their hearts and hope to die (only in this case they really do hope to die--all for the glory of "Allah")--not to use all those heavy water plants and their uranium enrichment facilities they spent billions on, for the only purpose those facilities possibly CAN be used for: building nuclear weapons.

If you believe that I have some beachfront property to sell you in New Mexico... But the MSM will believe it. Howard Dean will eat it up. John Kerry will say in haughty tones "reporting for duty" while Al Gore screams and pumps his fist. Can you picture this scenario? I can.

Here is my question: why the hell would we even give the guy a Visa??? It would be like talking to Heinrich Himmler to negotiate a Zyklon-B contract. Khatami should never set foot in this country. Period. There is absolutely no upside to the Bush Administration on letting this guy into the US and giving him ANY legitimacy whatsoever.

I am not the only one who feels this way. This from Hyscience:


Jimmy Carter Wants To Top Damage Done In 1979 Iran Hostage Crisis

That's the only way one could look at Jimmy the Dimmy's most recent plans to stick it to his country!

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[Carter, Iran, and the terrorists they support - joined in one big kumbaya while doves hover and chirp overhead]

As though he didn't do enough damage in the crisis of 1979, now the worst president in the history of the country plans to stick his nose in another Iran-related crisis - this time he's planning to host former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami for talks during his visit to the United States starting this week.

This particular article appears in the Carter-friendly, Democtatic-leaning, anti-American agended, Washington Post, so it's rather kind to the aging liberal who consistently goes out of his way to criticize the current administration and jump in bed with the country's enemies.

If you haven't guessed it by now, I don't think very much of Jimmy, but I'm not the only one that has such a low opinion of him. For example, Robert Spencer refers to the Wapo article calling Carter's hosting of the enemy as "an event that would turn a page in American history," and says that it is instead, "proof once again that former President Dhimmi Carter learned nothing from the crisis with Iran that occurred during his administration."

As Spencer points out in his piece, in Jimmy Carter we have a man that (is so far removed from reality), he once referred to the Ayatollah Khomeini as a fellow man of faith.

UPDATE: Captain Ed's onboard with disgust for Carter - and even mentions the Logan Act. So is Hugh Hewitt.

And don't miss this from the Times of London: "Don't Get Carter. He Won't Do":

Next week the former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami visits the United States. Though he will not meet government officials, the visit is significant and welcome. Khatami is reputedly a reformer. It may be possible, through him, to widen the gulf between Iranian pragmatists and theocratic populists.

But there is a risk. The current Iranian regime menaces Israel and has lied to the EU about its nuclear programme. It must not interpret Khatami’s visit as proof of the value of bellicosity. Khatami must get the message that the West will be receptive to concessions, but will face down belligerence. There lies the problem: Khatami’s host in the US is Jimmy Carter.

Carter’s poor reputation as president reflects a record not so much of incompetence as paralysis. He led his Administration mainly in the sense that its internal disagreements faithfully reflected his own philosophical chaos and administrative ineptitude. In domestic policy Carter zigzagged left and right, baffling equally the environmental activists he patronised and the churchgoers whose social values he claimed to share. His proposed system of federal energy controls failed comprehensively. In 1980 he acknowledged that inflation was near a “crisis stage”.

He proclaimed human rights while lauding the Shah of Iran’s repressive regime. When the Shah’s revolutionary successors held 52 American diplomats hostage for 14 months, Ayatollah Khomeini accurately sneered: “Neither does Carter have the guts for military action, nor would anyone listen to him.”

Carter cancelled the B1 bomber in the hope of gaining Soviet goodwill, later acknowledging bemusedly the Kremlin’s persisting “unfriendly rhetoric”. He earned the contempt of friendly European governments by announcing deployment of the neutron bomb and then cancelling it without consulting them.

Last weekend he impertinently attacked Tony Blair’s closeness to George Bush. Doubtless he prefers the model of transatlantic relations he pioneered with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of Germany, who observed in exasperation that Carter was “just not big enough for the game”.

Less an elder statesman than a soft cushion who bears the impress of whoever sits on him, the 39th president is the last person Khatami should meet.

God help us all.
DiscerningTexan, 8/30/2006 09:39:00 PM |