Carter: Goal Of Book Is To Provoke Dialogue and Action. Carter Refuses To Debate Over His Book
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“I don’t want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz,” Carter said in Friday’s Boston Globe. “There is no need … to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine.”
The school’s debate request, Carter said, is proof that many in the United States are unwilling to hear an alternative view on the nation’s most taboo foreign policy issue, Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.
Carter brokered the 1978 Camp David peace accord between Israel and Egypt and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002. He said the goal of his book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” is to provoke dialogue and action.
“There is no debate in America about anything that would be critical of Israel,” he said.
It seems to me that this would be a good time for a debate? Is Jimmy afraid he can’t hold up intellectually?  ALLAHPUNDIT has more, as does :Â
- Texas Rainmaker
- FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog » Michael Ramirez on Jimmy Carter’s New Book
- Bill’s Bites
December 15, 2006 - 09:08 PM on December 15th, 2006
“It seems to me that this would be a good time for a debate? Is Jimmy afraid he can’t hold up intellectually?”
Please.
He’s an ex-President of the United States. He doesn’t need to explain shit to anybody.
December 15, 2006 - 09:19 PM on December 15th, 2006
Nor can he. Of course the fact that the head of his own center on Middle East affairs has resigned due to the glaring inaccuracies and flat out falsehoods presented as fact, as well as the published materials used in his book without citation shouldn’t be any indication that Carter has been working for the last few years trying to build a false legacy to cover up the miserable failure that was his presidency. BTW San Fran, I’m old enough to remember his presidency. You can rewrite history all that you want, but the facts are that he was a miserable failure as a president. If he had spent his twilight years working for Houses for Humanity, I’d have had some respect for the man. He simply refuses to admit that in the realm of foreign affairs, he is in WAY over his head. He might be worth a damn as a goodwill ambassador working on the AIDS issue, but he is not competent to make or for that matter even propose foreign policy outside of humanitarian areas and barely there.
December 15, 2006 - 09:26 PM on December 15th, 2006
“…was a miserable failure as a president.”
Much like the one we’re all stuck with right now. (!)
December 15, 2006 - 10:06 PM on December 15th, 2006
Hmmm Yeah I can see how taking a country that is going into a recession and turning around the economy, fighting a war against Islamosfascist terrorism, and dealing with the most destructive terror attack in US history while dealing with the lying press would make him a worse president than Jimmy Carter who REFUSED to fight against the terrorists, did NOTHING to energize an economy that included double digit inflation, unemployment, and interest rates, gutted our intelligence gathering capacity overseas, and made us the laughing stock of the world by withdrawing our Olympic team from the Moscow Olympics to protest the Soviets going into Afghanistan. Any unbiased evaluation will show that Bush has done an excellent job considering what he was given to work with. An economy on a downhill slide, an intelligence network that had been gutted and never fully rebuilt (some things can never be rebuilt once they are screwed up badly enough), and a military that had been repeatedly reduced in size and had its budget cut for the previous 8 years. You can’t snap your fingers and rebuild an army overnight. Nor can you create Special Ops soldiers if you don’t have the people to do it. Special Ops is very hard to get into and even harder to pass the training. Something that the Democrats in Congress seem to fail to understand. Even when I was on active duty, almost two thirds of those who were selected for Ranger school, failed to pass it. Considering that only about 20% of those who join the Army even apply for Ranger school, only half of those would qualify and then 65% would fail to pass the school on the first try if at all, means that only about 3-4% of those who enlist would be able to become Rangers and an even smaller number of those would be able to become Special Forces (Green Berets). Even fewer still would be selected for and become members of Delta Force. Navy Seal training is equally hard to be selected for and even harder to complete. So exactly where is the Pentagon supposed to come up with all of these special operations soldiers that the Dems in Congress are screaming for?
BTW I went into the Army just before the 84 Elections. Despite the fact that they had been issuing Kevlar helmets and body armor to front line units since the late 70s, the division that I was in (4th ID) still did not have any when I got out in 1987. Why not? Because the Democratic Congress had refused to appropriate the money to purchase body armor for the troops. As for the Republicans not having armor for all of the troops, you don’t just produce millions of sets of level 4 or 5 body armor overnight and it has to be periodically replaced due to degradation so they’d no more get two non frontline divisions outfitted until one of the frontline ones would need replacements.
December 16, 2006 - 01:14 AM on December 16th, 2006
Carter: Goal Of Book Is To Provoke Dialogue…
Okay, here’s the dialogue: Peanut Brain was arguably the rost President in the 20th Century, and arguably all of American history. His failure and malfeasance has led directly to some of the most fundamental problems we have today.
He should stop lying, stop rewriting history, stop plagiarizing, and STFU.
December 16, 2006 - 08:07 AM on December 16th, 2006
1- Explain? He is the one calling for the dialogue and debate, but i guess he wants debate like Gore does..only with people that agree with him..If he doesn’t want to explain things, he should stop writing, speaking on T V shows and just retire..
December 16, 2006 - 09:15 AM on December 16th, 2006
Add to the list that carter did nothing to support our allies in Iran and latin america losing face for America. With presidents like him it’s no wonder America has trouble find allies to trust us as liberals always say. His work to legitimize the elections of dictators around the world since his presidency alone shows how clueless the guy is.
By the way you’re misinterpreting what carter said, by debate he means everyone should just agree with him so he can declare the debate is over. You just have to understand what the meaning of the word is is.
December 16, 2006 - 10:06 AM on December 16th, 2006
7-:wink:
January 11, 2007 - 07:16 PM on January 11th, 2007
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