Carter, Kerry, and Other Embarrassments
By Christopher Adamo (09/01/06)
Like a chronic rash, former President Jimmy Carter has emerged once again to
display a quality that vastly eclipses mere ignorance. Were his abominable
utterances of recent weeks merely the result of misinformation, the law of
averages suggests that Carter would occasionally end up on the right side of
one issue or another.
Yet his pattern of absurdity is so consistent, so unbroken since he came on
to the national scene some three decades ago, that it simply cannot be
explained away as a result of chronic naivety. No less predictable is the
inevitable harm inflicted on the country whenever he opens his mouth.
Unfortunately, Jimmy Carter is not alone. Though his time of greatest
prominence may be behind him, and thus his ability to humiliate the nation
should be waning, he has an eager “heir apparent” in Massachusetts Senator
John Kerry.
During the past few weeks, both have taken the opportunity to savage their
country along with its inarguably effective War on Terror. And in so doing,
both have given aid and comfort to a malevolent enemy that is relentless in
its efforts to wreak death and destruction on Americans.
Were Carter and Kerry the least bit interested in (or even conscious of) the
plight of their fellow countrymen, they would never have spouted such
seditious rhetoric. Yet they did, and for the past three decades, they have
never bypassed any opportunity to do so.
Prior to his miserable bid for the Presidency in 2004, John Kerry was best
known for his fallacious and treasonous 1971 testimony in front of the
United States Senate, during which he asserted that rampant atrocities were
being regularly perpetrated by American troops in Vietnam. Not long ago, he
leveled virtually identical charges (later shown to be just as baseless)
against American troops in Iraq.
And like Carter, Kerry’s concern for “victims” of such brutality is
extremely selective. Somehow he remains indifferent to the unspeakable human
suffering caused by the regimes that he habitually ends up supporting as he
seeks to denigrate and disgrace America. “Moral outrage,” when invoked on
this basis, can only be characterized as political posturing and hypocrisy.
Just as Kerry, throughout his career, has relentlessly endeavored to
alienate America from the rest of the world by portraying its actions in
only the most barbaric and repugnant terms, so has Jimmy Carter consistently
sought to meddle in international affairs in a manner that would inflict
maximum damage to the conservative and traditional principles on which this
nation was founded.
Worse yet, Carter lately seeks to extend his malignant influence to any
remaining worthy vestige of the same virtues held by other world leaders.
With the possible exception of Australian Prime Minister John Howard, no
other head of state has been more acutely aware of the need to wage and win
the terror war than British Prime Minister Tony Blair. But in a venomous
commentary appearing in Britain’s Sunday Telegraph on August 27, Carter took
aim at Blair, and chastised him for remaining supportive of the United
States.
Having long ago abandoned any allegiance to the America that gave him fame
and fortune, Carter now seeks to undermine any beacon of western resolve
against the encroachment of militant Islam. Apparently, he hopes to succeed
against Blair where the carping of such noted individuals as Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has thus far failed.
Fox News reporter Steve Centanni, along with his cameraman Olaf Wiig, was
forced at gunpoint by his Palestinian kidnappers to “convert” to Islam.
Hardly an aberration, this hideous episode represents standard practice for
the past fourteen hundred years. Thus it should demonstrate to the civilized
world in no uncertain terms that the terror war is at its roots, a religious
war.
This is especially true when considered in light of the stony silence
worldwide from all those “peaceful Muslims” who ostensibly do not advocate
such action. Adherents to militant Islam are far more widespread than the
few dozen who occasionally surface while attempting to “martyr” themselves
in service to their god.
It is naive and dangerous to baselessly hope that such thinking can be
rendered benign through “dialogue” or “mutual understanding.” But were the
likes of Carter and Kerry merely guilty of shortsighted and juvenile
musings, perhaps they could be forgiven. Alarmingly, their track record of
grievous harm to western interests is far too unswerving to be chalked up to
mere stupidity.
Every leftist claim of America’s failure in the terror war is a
pronouncement of its enemies’ success. And every assertion that America
cannot win this war is a proclamation to the terrorists that they cannot
lose.
It is high time that real Americans stop playing along with the semantic
games of the left, whereby such terms as “patriotism” are first made so
subjective as to lose all meaning, only to then be “redefined” so perversely
as to encompass hatred for one’s country.
Arming America’s enemies and bolstering their resolve to attack and destroy
our country, as both Carter and Kerry have consistently done, cannot be
construed as “patriotism” by any reasoned mind. And if this statement of the
obvious elicits hysterical responses and cries of indignation from liberals
to whom it clearly applies, let that be their own misfortune.
As President Bush said in his September 20, 2001 speech to a joint session
of Congress, the peoples of the world will, by their words and actions,
prove themselves to be either with America, or against it. Clearly, Carter,
Kerry, and their political class, have proven themselves to be unequivocally
against us.
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