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To: JDN who wrote (207897)	12/7/2001 11:57:10 AM
From: goldworldnet	Respond to of 769670

Today is of course the 60th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. December 8th is the anniversary of our Declaration of War against Japan and December 11th is the anniversary of the Declaration of War against Germany. Former President Carter's recent behavior is truly sad..... Thursday December 06 08:55 PM EST Former President Carter speaks at peace and justice conference in San Diego Former President Jimmy Carter criticized the Bush administration Thursday at a conference in San Diego on peace and justice in saying "establishing military tribunals is a serious mistake." He also expressed concern over the United States detaining suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks in a shroud of secrecy. "We might be laying the ground(work) to undo what I think is an inevitable military victory if we subvert the major principles the United States has always espoused for justice," Carter said to attendees of the inaugural conference at the University of San Diego Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. Peace will come to Afghanistan, he said, if the United States is generous and doesn't abandon the country as it did after Soviet occupation. Carter was president when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979. Along with Carter at the conference was Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, former U.N. Special Representative for the Secretary-General for Burundi; and Rodrigo Carazo Odio, former president of Costa Rica from 1978-1982. Peace and Justice Institute Director Joyce Neu, who previously worked for Carter, moderated the panel discussion. The three leaders shared their perspectives on the growing number of conflicts around the world and difficulties to reach peace agreements. Carter, who also is on a tour to promote his 15th book, "An Hour Before Daylight," is chairman of the Carter Center in Atlanta, which addresses national and international issues of public policy. The center monitors elections, mitigates conflicts, protects human rights and aims to prevent disease around the world. After more than 20 years out of office, Carter still is able to connect with an audience, and received several standing ovations from the capacity crowd. The greatest challenge facing the world in the new millennium, Carter said, is the growing disparity between the rich and poor. "This is the root cause of 110 conflicts that exist now in the world that we monitor every day," he said. "It's not only embarrassing for the rich people who don't share ... but it's very disturbing for the poorest and most deprived people on earth who, along with so-called globalization, now can see for the first time in their life, 'I am a lot worse off than I ever dreamed I was. Why are those people so affluent, so blessed with security and wealth not sharing their benefit with me?'" The other panelists echoed Carter's sentiment, but also discussed removing government corruption to help countries better compete in the international marketplace. Carazo Odio of Costa Rica, which dissolved its national Army and signed a moratorium on purchasing large-scale weapons, said peace must be a way of life. "When our country cannot export goods, we export people," Carazo Odio said. "Our country suffers because better qualified people leave our country." He also stressed that both developing and industrial countries work together to solve global challenges from slavery to human rights abuses to environmental degradation. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, who was in New York City on Sept. 11, said the attacks resonated worldwide. Moving beyond the tragedy is going to be difficult, he said, but world leaders need more contact with each other to understand their differences. Carter, who lived in San Diego during the Korean War and was a Naval officer stationed aboard a submarine, said he was in New York City recently to visit the site of the World Trade Center devastation. He's been inundated with questions about peace and justice in both Afghanistan and the Middle East, he said. "How do you deal with people who have an unsavory or disreputable reputation?" he said. "Every concession that either side made has to be less than the benefit that they were convinced they would receive for it and both sides have to feel (they) had won." The United States as the unchallenged superpower, he said, has the political influence and dominant economic system to champion human rights and alleviate human suffering. "Be a champion of peace. I'm glad to be a citizen and a former leader of that superpower," he said. dailynews.yahoo.com * * *