I have some problems with some of Carters policies/
But I also happen to think he was a moral person whose motives were sound even if his administration failed on many counts.
He was, after all, betrayed by the very same duelopoly that is screwing this nation, right now.
"...moral person whose motives were sound..."
"Last month, Carter penned a remarkable op-ed piece for the New York Times, entitled "America Can Persuade Israel to Make a Just Peace." In it, he let it all hang out as an apologist for Arafat and a bulldog against Sharon. Before getting to that piece, however, we should be clear about just how attached to Arafat and his cause the ex-president is. As Brinkley writes in his book The Unfinished Presidency — about Carter's celebrated post-White House years — "there was no world leader Jimmy Carter was more eager to know than Yasir Arafat." The former president "felt certain affinities with the Palestinian: a tendency toward hyperactivity and a workaholic disposition...."
Jay Nordlinger on Jimmy Carter on National Review Online
"...moral person whose motives were sound..."????
"...an apologist for Arafat..."
"...moral person whose motives were sound..."????
"...In Carter's eyes, the Arab-Israeli conflict is not unlike the pre-civil-rights South, with the Israelis as the oppressive whites and the Palestinians as the innocent blacks..."
"...he said, "When I bring up the [PLO] charter, you should not be concerned that I am biased. I am much more harsh with the Israelis."
"...Carter actually acted as PR adviser and speechwriter to Arafat."
"...moral person whose motives were sound..."????
You wanna stick with that?
1973: Under ArafatÂ’s command, Black September
kidnaps and murders an American Ambassador
and his deputy hostage in Sudan.
April 11, 1974: Eleven Israelis are killed by PLO
terrorists who attack an apartment building in
Kiryat Shmona.
May 15, 1974: PLO terrorists infiltrating Israel from
Lebanon take children hostage at a school in
Ma'alot, killing 26. Most were 15 year-old-girls.
1976: PLO attacks Israel from Lebanon. Assassins
murder the US Ambassador to Lebanon.
March 1978: Fatah terrorists take over an Israeli bus
on the Haifa-Tel Aviv highway and kill 21 passengers.
Feb. 11, 1980: “Peace for us means the destruction
of Israel,” Arafat tells Venezuela’s El Mundo news
source.
1982: The PLO destabilizes Lebanon. Israel
invades Lebanon to stop PLO missile assaults
against Israeli towns. Arafat is exiled to Tunis.
Oct. 7, 1985: PLO terrorists hijack the Italian
cruise ship Achille Lauro and shoot and throw
overboard Leon Klinghoffer, a wheelchair-bound
elderly American.
http://www.standwithus.com/pdfs/flyers/Arafats_Legacy.pdf