Text 17639, 88 rader
Skriven 2014-08-13 16:16:03 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 17634 av Lee Lofaso (2:203/2)
Ärende: leftist revisionism
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Greetings Lee!

 TR>> Carter was no better at `diplomacy' than he was at `nukular
 TR>> engineering', which was the main reason admiral Rickover got rid of
 TR>> him!

 LL> Jimmy Carter is an engineer by profession,

LOL! BS! One of the two new submarines (c1953) being built was the
Seawolf, and Carter taught nuclear engineering to its handpicked crew.

Note that the nuclear engineering taught was from an already published
Naval Engineering handbook and class lessons written by then Lt Carter's
superiors. This did not make him an Engieer by profession, it was part of
his job under then Captain Rickover, aka the 'father of the nuclear
Navy'...

 LL>  and has served honorably in the Navy during the WWII era.

Else he would be spending several years in the Navy's brig...

 LL>   No combat troops were killed in action during his presidency,

Doncha just love leftist revisionism?

Carter can only hope that there are fools like you that believe that
garbage. During his term as POtUS, Carter abandoned the Shah of Iran, and
Carter's UN ambassador went so far as to call the Ayatollah Khomeini "some
kind of saint".

The Shah went into exile, but Carter refused to allow him into the U.S.
until the Shah became mortally ill. The mullahs demanded that Carter hand
the Shah back over. Carter wouldn't do that, but he wanted him out Iran.

Iranian fury at the U.S. rose, and in 1979 hostages were taken at the
American embassy in Tehran. (Shortly thereafter the Shah left, ending up
in Egypt, where he would die from his illness.) Carter was now engulfed in
the Iranian hostage crisis - the first in a series of American clashes
with the Iranian mullahs that would continue straight through to today.

Notably, those who insist that America would be better off if Saddam
Hussein had remained in power never get around to making the same claim
for the Shah. But in the wake of his overthrow, a country that was once a
solid American ally went in the hands of the Ayatollah and radical mullahs
and mobs.

This has affected the foreign policy of every one of Carter's successors,
resulting in another hostage crisis (in Lebanon), the murder of Marines in
their Beirut barracks, the hijacking of TWA flight 847 and the murder of
passenger - and U.S. Navy diver - Robert Stethem. All of these involved
Hezbollah or the Islamic Jihad or both. And both were financed by the new
Islamic masters of Iran.

In fact, it is Jimmy Carter who set in motion - or stood by watching as it
was - much of what ails the Middle East. The Carter legacy of weakness
begat the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which begat the rise of the
Islamic terrorist state of Iran and the winks and nods to the Iraqi
dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.

"I once had quite an argument with the late Sen. Eugene McCarthy [the
liberal Democrat from Minnesota], who maintained adamantly that it had
been right for him to vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980 for no other reason.
"Mr. Carter,' he said, `quite simply abdicated the whole responsibility of
the presidency while in office. He left the nation at the mercy of its
enemies at home and abroad. He was the worst president we ever had." -
Christopher Hitchens, May of 2007.

 LL>  which is an accomplishment that most presidents can only dream of.

And the nightmares he left behind.

 LL>>> which led to the successful release of all 52 Americans who had
 LL>>> been taken hostage by Iran.

Make no mistake: The hard fact of the matter is that Barack Obama, George
W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan have made in
the Middle East, have all had to deal with Jimmy Carter's legacy of war,
weakness, and incompetence.


    Have a day!

         R\%/itt - K5RXT


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