The Party of Jimmy Carter
Macsmind blog
By Macranger on 9/11
It’s one thing to say that Democrats by their very nature suck at national defense, it’s another thing to fully list the reasons they suck. Many Democrats today like to call themselves “FDR” democrats, or “JFK” democrats when in truth they are “Jimmy Carter” democrats.
An editorial in Investor’s Business Daily outlines 97 reasons democrats suck on national security and it appropriatey begins with President Jimmy Carter, which I had the distinct displeasure of serving directly under. The 12 points he lists are key to understanding how Jimmy Carter committed near treason by his cuddling of terrorists regimes, disarming our military, and setting the stage for roque terrorist nations like Iran, Iraq, Syria, China, Cuba and others to be the threat they are today.
“Today’s Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.
Jimmy Carter, elected during the Cold War with the Soviet Union, and (1) believing Americans had an inordinate fear of communism, (2) lifted U.S. citizens’ travel bans to Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia and (3) pardoned draft evaders.
President Carter (4) also stopped B-1 bomber production, (5) gave away our strategically located Panama Canal and (6) made human rights the central focus of his foreign policy.
That led Carter, a Democrat, (7) to make a monumental miscalculation and withdraw U.S. support for our long-standing Mideast military ally, the Shah of Iran. (8) Carter simply didn’t like the Shah’s alleged mistreatment of imprisoned Soviet spies.
The Soviets, (9) with close military ties to Iraq, a 1,500-mile border with Iran and eyes on Afghanistan, aggressively tried to encircle, infiltrate, subvert and overthrow Iran’s government for its oil deposits and warm-water ports several times after Russian troops attempted to stay there at the end of WWII. These were all communist threats to Iran that Carter never understood.
Carter (10) thought Ayatollah Khomeini, a Muslim exile in Paris, would make a fairer Iranian leader than the Shah because he was a religious man. (11) With U.S. support withdrawn, the Shah was overthrown, and (12) the ayatollah returned and promptly proclaimed Iran an Islamic nation. (13) Executions followed. Palestinian hit men were hired to secretly eliminate the opposition so the religious mullahs couldn’t be blamed.”
Pick the conflict in the middle east and it has Carter’s legacy as it’s roots. The editorial goes on through through history, from Carterto the presdent day showing specifically how democrats consistently endanger America by cutting national defense spending, cutting and running from conflict and having an almost maniacle adversion to America’s interests. It’s no mistake that Senator John Kerry based his entire campaign in 2004 Carter policies of capitulation to foreign interests - specifically european appeasement - and on a platform that put America in a time of war on a position of having to defend the reasons it defends itself.
The entirity of the Democratic platform for 2006 is that the same Carter game plan that got us where we are today. Should democrats gain control of our government again, I shudder to think of where America will be twenty years from now. |
