Comments on: An expert weighs in on the Egyptian crisis: Jimmy Carter https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:16:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Gringo https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221438 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 05:16:48 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221438 The Carter administration was very naé¯ve. Recall what Andrew Young, US Ambassador to the UN, said about Khomeini after his return to Iran from exile in Paris: “Khomeini will be somewhat of a saint when we get over the panic.”

Very saintly.
[page 106: Andrew Young: Civil Rights Ambassador,by Andrew DeRoche]
By no means was this the only naé¯ve statement made by a member of the Carter Administration regarding Iran.

]]> By: kaba https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221382 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:38:15 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221382 Unlike the O-man, Carter had some real world experience before becoming President. And yet for the last 30+ years he has periodically blathered these asinine jewels.

I’m not a psychologist nor do I play one on TV. But I am convinced that he is in deep, deep denial. He will believe and posit whatever position will allow him to maintain his own fantasy that his wasn’t a massively failed administration. And that directly or indirectly he is responsible for thousands of dead innocents.

]]> By: SteveH https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221380 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:31:49 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221380 Jimmy is an example of what an adolescent mind looks like in an 80 year old.

]]> By: Parker https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221362 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:55:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221362 I like the stepping on a rake analogy.

]]> By: Occam's Beard https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221310 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:23:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221310 Carter serves a valuable function as an anti-authority.

If I were President, I’d ask Carter what he thought of a proposed course of action. If he approved, I’d thank him and then reconvene my staff to come up with something else, grateful to have avoided stepping on that rake. Seriously.

]]> By: texexec https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221308 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:03:09 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221308 Carter would be laughable if his way of “thinking” wasn’t so dangerous.

]]> By: T https://thenewneo.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221303 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 18:39:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2011/01/31/an-expert-weighs-in-on-the-egyptian-crisis-jimmy-carter/#comment-221303 I used to think that Carter, while a failed president, was one of the most humane men to sit in the oval office. His anti-American activity and sanctimonious criticism over the last decade have disabused me of that opinion. Carter is a great living example of Mark Twain’s observation that it is “better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.”

As to Carter probably being sincere, we all know where the road paved with good intentions leads.

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