shadowman is "too young" to have heard of Carter's Iranian hostage crisis, and of the lovely Ayatollah Khomeini who took over after Carter pushed out the Shah? LOL
In the narrow aspect of Carter setting aside international common sense to remove the US most powerful ally in the Middle East (the Shah of Iran) other than Israel, this focused change was definitely contrary to US interests and events over the next 25 years proved this.
Carter's mistaken assessment of Khomeini was a disaster for the US. Inept Carter totally misjudged Khomeini as a person and as a political entity.
In an article in May 2002, NewsMax's Chris Ruddy pointed out:
"Remember Carter's human rights program, where he demanded the Shah of Iran step down and turn over power to the Ayatollah Khomeini?
"No matter that Khomeini was a madman. Carter had the U.S. Pentagon tell the Shah's top military commanders (about 150 of them) to acquiesce to the Ayatollah and not fight him.
"The Shah's military listened to Carter. All of them were murdered in one of the Ayatollah's first acts.
"By allowing the Shah to fall, Carter created one of the most militant anti-American dictatorships ever."
The result of Carter's incompetence was the establishment of a Marxist/Islamic state in Iran headed by the tyrannical Ayatollah Khomeini.
Today Carter is the salesman for HAMAS and for the Dubai port deal.
HOW MUCH MONEY DOES CARTER RECEIVE from the Arab world for his Carter Center in Atlanta?
Even if you are "too young" to know the fact of Carter's disastrous pushing out of the staunchest US ally in the region(the Shah of Iran) other than Israel, you seem to have missed the news of Carter's anti-US actions as an ex-president.
Here's the latest:
Carter Seeks Vote in U.N. Against U.S.
New York Sun March 3, 2006 By BENNY AVNI -
President Carter personally called Secretary of State Rice to try to convince her to reverse her U.N. ambassador's position on changes to the U.N. Human Rights Commission, the former president recalled yesterday in a talk in which he also criticized President Bush's Christian bona fides and misstated past American policies on Israel.
Mr. Carter said he made a personal promise to ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan, and Cuba on the U.N. change issue that was undermined by America's ambassador, John Bolton. "My hope is that when the vote is taken," he told the Council on Foreign Relations, "the other members will outvote the United States."
While other former presidents have tried to refrain from attacking the sitting chief executive, Mr. Carter's attacks on President Bush have increased. The episode he recounted yesterday showed how he tried to undermine officials at lower levels in an effort to influence policy.
The story, as Mr. Carter recalled, began with a recent dinner for 17 he attended in New York, where the guests included the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson; an unidentified American representative, and other U.N. ambassadors from "powerful" countries at Turtle Bay, of which he mentioned only three: Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. The topic was the ongoing negotiations on an attempt to replace the widely discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission with a more accountable Human Rights Council.
"One of the things I assured them of was that the United States was not going to dominate all the other nations of the world in the Human Rights Council," Mr. Carter said. However, on the next day, Mr. Carter said, Mr. Bolton publicly "demanded" that the five permanent members of the Security Council will have permanent seats on the new council as well, "which subverted exactly what I have promised them," Mr. Carter said.
"So I called Condoleezza Rice and told her about the problem, and she said that that statement by our representative was not going to be honored," he said. But despite Mr. Carter's assessment that there are "a lot of people" in Washington who oppose Mr. Bolton on the Human Rights Council, Mr. Bolton's opposition to the proposed new structure became American policy.
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