By Maj. W. Thomas Smith, Jr.
Poor ol’ Jimmy Carter. He’s a good man to be sure: an excellent Sunday School teacher I’m told, a Naval Academy grad and submariner (huge pluses in my book). But as a wartime commander-in-chief – and make no mistake the United States was at war (with the Soviets and their proxies as well as the Iranian revolutionaries) during his presidency – Carter has proven to be sorely lacking.
As an elder statesman, Carter has worked tirelessly building houses for the homeless and generally trying to further various human rights causes worldwide. And that’s great. But where he doesn’t need to stick his nose is in the realm of American foreign policy.
Cases in point are his recent offers to monitor the 2009 Lebanese parliamentary elections and meet with the Lebanon-based Shia terrorist group, Hizballah. Read more ...
Poor ol’ Jimmy Carter. He’s a good man to be sure: an excellent Sunday School teacher I’m told, a Naval Academy grad and submariner (huge pluses in my book). But as a wartime commander-in-chief – and make no mistake the United States was at war (with the Soviets and their proxies as well as the Iranian revolutionaries) during his presidency – Carter has proven to be sorely lacking.
As an elder statesman, Carter has worked tirelessly building houses for the homeless and generally trying to further various human rights causes worldwide. And that’s great. But where he doesn’t need to stick his nose is in the realm of American foreign policy.
Cases in point are his recent offers to monitor the 2009 Lebanese parliamentary elections and meet with the Lebanon-based Shia terrorist group, Hizballah. Read more ...
Source: Family Security Matters
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