Carter Should Go Away

Readers might remember an ex-president named Jimmy Carter. He was ushered in as an insider and ushered out as a failure. While honest men and women admit that the man was an incompetent president, some still claim he was a good man. This may have been true at some point, but it certainly is no longer.

Mr. Carter is over in Britain for a Bible conference of sorts and meanwhile he's taking the time to remind us why citizens voted for Reagan.

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," he told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England. "I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts."

Wrong. This is actually quite despicable. He is saying that because we have a couple of enemy combatants locked up, the terrorists now have justification for their acts of decadence. The terrorists do not need justification, but Carter gives it to them anyway.

Carter also criticized the U.S.-led war in Iraq as "unnecessary and unjust."

I also think the Iraq war is misguided to be sure. But to say that locking up a couple of crooks is going to cause further terrorism is a non-sequiter. Terrorists are going to hit us again, regardless of what we do, and no, it's not because "they hate our freedom". It's because they want us out of their lives completely. They are sick of our troops in their homeland and the vitriol we call culture pervading their society. If we wish to keep spreading our secluar values and dealing with the Middle East, we're going to get more of the same. Guantanamo changes nothing.

"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."

Only in your eyes Carter. The left loves to bend over backwards in an effort to understand these people. There can be some understanding gained, but to rationalize the irrational is the act of an insane person. Much of the left suffers from insanity it would seem.

Carter, who won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, has been an outspoken critic of the Iraq war.

This whole thing is almost too much nonsense to handle. I am not sure on what grounds Carter deserved a peace prize. Reagan ended the cold war and he lacks a peace prize. The Nobel Peace Prize is political and it means little, especially in application to Carter. Remember the Iranian hostages? Enough said.

The reason any of this is pertinent is because it illustrates both the cluelessness of the left as well as lact of class in Carter, and by extension his followers. Telling Bush--implicitly--how not to run the war on terror is akin to Hoover telling FDR how to run the economy.

If Carter were a good man, he would remain mute about this whole affair. He forfeited the right to criticize when he proved he couldn't do the job himself. It would be best if, instead of speaking, he grabbed his Bible and fell to his knees. It would not only be more effective, it would also be the prudent and good thing to do. For such an action--which he probably does do--he deserves respect. For talking he doesn't deserve the light of day. His remarks, like his presidency, should fade forever.