BY: NCViking

You got to love Jimmy Carter. After meeting with the terrorist group Hamas last year and outraging nearly everyone, it became clear that he honestly believes just ‘talking’ can stop bloodthirsty nuts and evil acts. If you question whether this is a fair assessment of Hamas, I will let their own words speak for themselves:

From The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas – 1988)

Article 13
(Strategies and Methods – (regarding) Peaceful Solutions, Initiatives and International Conferences)

“Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement … There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors. The Palestinian people know better than to consent to having their future, rights and fate toyed with.”

Article 15
(Strategies and Methods – The Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine is an Individual Duty:)

“In face of the Jews’ usurpation of Palestine, it is compulsory that the banner of Jihad be raised. To do this requires the diffusion of Islamic consciousness among the masses, both on the regional, Arab and Islamic levels. It is necessary to instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of the fighters.”

“It is necessary that scientists, educators and teachers, information and media people, as well as the educated masses, especially the youth and sheikhs of the Islamic movements, should take part in the operation of awakening (the masses). It is important that basic changes be made in the school curriculum, to cleanse it of the traces of ideological invasion that affected it as a result of the orientalists and missionaries who infiltrated the region following the defeat of the Crusaders at the hands of Salah el-Din (Saladin).”

Sounds like people you can negotiate with, huh? To see even further looniness, check out this blog post.

Now our little modern day Neville Chamberlain has decided to criticize Abraham Lincoln for being ‘un-Christian’ for the Civil War.

From NY Daily News:
(I am publishing about 3/4 of the article; if you want to read the whole thing, follow the link)

Here’s the latest outrage from Jimmy Carter, the ex-President so many Americans love to hate: He claims the Civil War – which he calls, Southern-style, “The War Between the States” – was un-Christian and could have been avoided.

The comments come in a new book, “In Lincoln’s Hand: His Original Manuscripts With Commentary By Distinguished Americans.” Carter comments on a passage by Lincoln in which Lincoln writes: “I am almost ready to say this is probably true – that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet.”

Carter writes that he finds the Lincoln writing “very troubling.” Continues Carter: “He ignores the fact that the tragic combat might have been avoided altogether, and that the leaders of both sides, overwhelmingly Christian, were violating a basic premise of their belief as followers of the Prince of Peace.” He concludes: “A legitimate question for historians is how soon the blight of slavery would have been terminated peacefully in America, as in Great Britain and other civilized societies.”

Carter holds up the British – who didn’t fight a war over slavery – as an example, but a careful look shows that case to be thoroughly unconvincing. Parliament had acted in 1807 to ban the slave trade and in 1833 to abolish slavery altogether. By the time the Civil War began in 1861, America’s legislature had yet to follow suit – and the Southerners didn’t appear in any great rush to do so.

How much patience should Lincoln have had with the immoral institution? How many more lashes should have fallen on the backs of American blacks during Carter’s hypothetical waiting period for slavery to terminate “peacefully”? The period wouldn’t have been particularly peaceful for the slaves. One might as well argue that the bloodshed of the American Revolution could have been avoided, given that British rule was eventually terminated peacefully in Canada.

Given the Civil War comment, we can no longer see each (Carter) misstep or misstatement in isolation as just another crazy comment from an old man who wasn’t that good a President anyway. Carter seems to go to irrational extremes to avoid forthright confrontation or conflict with evil of any kind – even when ending human slavery is at stake.

The Obama administration is going to be faced with policy decisions on negotiating with Hamas, Iran, North Korea and others whose hands are stained with crimes akin to slavery. It may help President Obama structure the internal discussions if he considers whether he wants to perceive America’s conflicts in the fashion of Lincoln, his fellow Illinois politician, or in the manner of Carter, waiting around for a peaceful termination while today’s victims and slaves suffer beatings and are deprived of their freedoms.

I just hope and pray Obama doesn’t adopt the Carter doctrine, but if his goofy, poor attempts at foreign relations and striking similarities to Gordon Brown are any indication, start worrying.

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
George Santayana, The Life of Reason

Chamberlain also said he had a long, friendly and frank ‘talk’ with Heir Hitler; and from this he supposedly gained full understanding of what was in the madman’s mind. The rest is history.

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