Monday, May 21, 2007

Carter Sanctimony Machine Now Turbocharged

We've been pretty hard on Jimmy Carter in the past. We'd like to stop. But he keeps making the most outrageous remarks, combining his patented sanctimony with a level of historical and political stupidity that insults everyone within earshot. With others, we keep responding.

Carter's recent derogatory remarks about Messrs. Blair and Bush have been well documented. Apparently Carter now characterizes these statements as at least in part "reckless." That's the closest thing to the truth that he's said in recent memory.

For some perspective on Carter's statement, let's imagine that it's 1951 and Herbert Hoover is criticizing Harry Truman for his handling of the economy. And for good measure, he criticizes Winston Churchill too.

Let it be said here that Messrs. Blair and Bush have done more than anyone before to recognize and address the mess that Mr. Carter's capitulating approach to radical Islam, too often followed by his successors, has engendered. When the radicals regard the West as a paper tiger, it is Mr. Carter who best epitomizes that judgment. He is, of course, the last person to recognize this.

We recently offered that Tony Blair, if he indeed offered a quid pro quo to Iran to get the British hostages released, might be known as the Jimmy Carter of Great Britain. We now think that such an eventuality is impossible. Blair didn't leave his hostages in Iran for the next prime minister to get released in the first fifteen minutes of his administration.

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