After having recently lost his title of "Worst President in American History", Jimmy Carter has continued his efforts to maintain the title of worst former president. A title he will hold, I'm sure, only until such time that we are finally able to rid ourselves of Barack Hussein Obama. Anyway, in the meantime Jimmy's out doing his best to pad his already considerable lead in the hopes that Barry won't be able to catch up with him. Efforts that now have Jimmy loudly proclaiming that the United States has abandoned its role as the world’s champion of human rights and cites the recent stories of targeted assassinations and drone attacks that have killed innocent civilians as “disturbing proof” of how the country has lost its “moral leadership.” Now you would think that Jimmy would be well behind these drone strikes, after all, at least those on the receiving end aren't being tortured. Gee, we just can't make this guy happy.
Writing, and probably with one of those very fat 'Crayola' crayons, in a New York Times op-ed piece, published just today, Carter delivered what was described as a blistering attack on the administrations of Barry "Almighty" and George W. Bush, as well as Congress, accusing all of sanctioning and conducting a caliber of foreign policy and counterterrorism that would have been completely unthinkable in years past. “The United States is abandoning its role as the global champion of human rights,” Carter wrote. Adding, “Revelations that top officials are targeting people to be assassinated abroad, including American citizens, are only the most recent, disturbing proof of how far our nation’s violation of human rights has extended." According to our old buddy Jimmy, “This development began after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has been sanctioned and escalated by bipartisan executive and legislative actions, without dissent from the general public."
Jimmy went on to say, “As a result, our country can no longer speak with moral authority on these critical issues.” Look, Carter has always demonstrated a rather quirky fondness for always wanting to take whatever position that was specifically opposed by his own country, no matter what the topic. And it was his supposed work on 'human rights' and on 'advancing democracy' that garnered for him a Nobel Prize that was essentially a joke. A joke ranking right up there with the Nobel collected by Al Gore for his bogus climate change nonsense and the Nobel collected by Barry for a reason that no one's quite been able to figure out yet. In recent history the receiving of a Nobel Prize has become much less an act of recognition for some significant accomplishment and more simplyh a statement of pure politics. It has now been bestowed upon so many who were so undeserving as to have now become meaningless except as a possible footnote in one's bio.
Carter has also declared that U.S. actions had violated at least 10 of 30 articles in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted to protect people from “cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Saying, “At a time when popular revolutions are sweeping the globe, the United States should be strengthening, not weakening, basic rules of law and principles of justice enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” He added, “But instead of making the world safer, America’s violation of international human rights abets our enemies and alienates our friends.” Carter was highly critical of a wide range of counterterrorism and national security measures put in place in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. In this regard he was of the same opinion as a significant majority of his fellow appeasnik Democrats who would have rather had us simply sit on our hands after those terrible attacks.
Citing everything from “cleared” detainees still being held at Guantanamo and that evil waterboarding 'torture' of prisoners to “unwarranted wiretapping” and “mining of private communications,” Carter said U.S. laws and polices now violate the basic rights to privacy, freedom of expression, and the presumption of innocence. But Carter reserved his harshest criticism for the U.S. drones strikes that have killed innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and elsewhere in the effort to take out al-Qaida leaders and operatives. “We don’t know how many hundreds of innocent civilians have been killed in these attacks, each one approved by the highest authorities in Washington,” Carter wrote, adding, “This would have been unthinkable in previous times.” He claims that our desire to fight back only serves to create more terrorists, so what's his solution. Are we supposed to somehow reason with these murdering psychopaths? How do you do that?
If we look back over the years to Carter's inept handling of all matters related to foreign policy, but in particular Iran, it becomes very apparent, very quickly, that the radical form of Islam that we are finding ourselves confronted with today, was essentially given what can only be described as a massive dose of adrenalin by the Carter administration. Carter gave them the keys to their own country from which their deadly malignancy would spread. Carter was a willing participant in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, because it could not have taken place without him. Then we fast forward a little over 20 years and we have aircraft crashing into our skyscrapers leaving 3000 of our fellow citizens dead. And this guy, Carter, feels like he should be able to criticize us or to second guess our methods of response? No, I don't think so. Look, I am far from a big supporter of these drone strikes, I'd much rather we capture these guys and see what information we can get. But at least with them dead, they won't be hurting anyone.
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