Carter and "Can't we just talk?"

Captain's Quarters has the best take on meddlesome senescent busybody Carter's latest foray into imbecilic showboating.

Carter believes in dialogue so much that he did nothing else when Khatami's movement seized power in Teheran 27 years ago, and when Khatami and his fellow revolutionaries seized and held the American embassy and over 50 of our representatives for 444 days. Carter's belief in dialogue did not extend to the revolution's preceding government, the Shah, which Carter undermined for its human-rights violations. The fall of the Shah set off a chain reaction of Islamist momentum, creating competing radical Arab/Persian visions for a new Caliphate which not only exponentially increased human-rights violations but resulted in a wave of state-sponsored terrorism from the Islamic Republic.

Carter's belief in dialogue mirrors the utopian vision of the Left, a moral-relativist existence where all people are reasonable and all conflict results from simple misunderstandings. Carter has never understood the nature of evil, even while confronted with it in office; his post-presidential career has not provided him with an education, either. Years of diplomatic and economic engagement with Iran by the EU has not brought about a moderation of its policies, despite his sanctimonious statement on "talking to people who you have problems with".

This freaky little geek is hooked on sincerely mindless kumbayeh-era fecklessness. As Morissey notes with North Korea, airhead Jimmy edged marginally retarded Clinton into an agreement that Kim Jung-Il violated immediately, while pocketing billions of dollars from gullible Peter-Pan-can-fly Clintonistas. Now N. Korea has the bomb and Carter moves to Iran to foster more anarchy and nuclear proliferation, while mouthing the do-gooder twaddle this carny geek always peddles. Remember this moral monolith banished the neutron bomb from the US arsenal in line with his Pollyanna world view. Morissey continues:

Iran has made it clear, through the mullah's latest mouthpiece Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that they intend on eliminating Israel from the Middle East. Their new president talks about it constantly and has demanded that his trading partners in Europe carve out some of their own territory to house the Israelis before Iran fulfills its pledges. Khatami and his moderates have not spoken a word against these constant statements, nor have they lifted a finger to end the grip of the radical mullahs on Iranian government. None of these actions require American dialogue, and none of them would benefit from it as long as that dialogue seeks accommodation with radical nihilists.

GHWB and Gerry Ford have the best philosophies of ex-presidents: first, do no harm and stay out of politics.

Too bad Carter and Clinton violate both those rules, proving their post-presidencies just as ridiculous as their time in office---which for Carter especially, is a great achievement, almost impossible to imagine!

Carter's philosophy reminds me of Dutch cineaste Theo Van Gogh's last words as he lay on the sidewalk with bullet wounds gushing his lifeblood: "Can't we just talk about this?"

The terrorist's answer to Van Gogh was a knife in his heart.

So much for dialogue with Islamists, Jimmy.