Can’t let this article about Jimmy Carter go by
Bookworm on Feb 16 2007 at 5:26 pm | Filed under: Jimmy Carter
It’s no surprise to readers here that I really, really don’t like Jimmy Carter. I think he was a dreadful President and is, if possible, an even worse ex-President. But that’s just my opinion, unsupported by fact. For facts, you can go to this superb Josh Muravchik article in Commentary Magazine: Our Worst Ex-President. Read it and prepare to be disgusted (by Carter, not by Muravchik’s writing, of course).
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I thought that I circulated this column weeks ago!
Every village used to have its idiot. Only now, through the miracle of modern communications technology, we have Jimmy Carter available to fill the post of National Idiot.
Oh I don’t know, there’s a lot of contenders for that post. Michael Moore. Al Franken, who plans to run for the Senate from Minnesota. You might grant Carter emeritus status.
Unbelievable! Shows, once again, how much damage can be done by a person with wrong-headed ideas in a position of power and influence.
I believe that one of the most wrong-headed of Carter’s and other liberals’ ideas is to think that peace can and should be our primary goal. While all of us fervently desire peace, it must not and cannot be our goal.
Peace is a result, not a goal. It is the result of a determination to stand up for — and a willingness to fight for — what is right. If we make liberty our goal, then in the long run we shall have peace as a result. If we make peace our goal, then in the long run we shall have as a result, not peace, but tyranny.
Why is this so difficult to understand? The fundamental principle has been known for at least 2,500 years since Sun Tzu wrote “The Art of War”. Sun Tzu believed and argued persuasively that actual fighting can be avoided and many lives saved if one of the sides in a conflict combines superior determination and resources in the pursuit of a just cause.
Peace — like happiness — comes in the side door.