Carter's Mugabe

With all the press fawning of former Democrat President Jimmy Carter, which I refer to as Jimmy "The dumb" Carter, people may forget the part he played in installing the ruthless Marxist dictator Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, You see, not only is Jimmy Carter responsible for modern terrorism as we know it, he is also at least partly responsible for Zimbabwe's Mugabe and his reign of terror.

What is it with leftists and their buds, Marxists, Communists and all manner of dictators? You can see the effect in modern times by watching the left fawn over Hugo Chavez and the destruction he is causing in Venezuela and of course their old favorite dictator Fidel Castro.

But for the fawning drive by media, and the leftists who cleanse Wikipedia of anything negative about Democrat Jimmy Carter, you might not know what Democrat President Jimmy "the dumb" Carter did and the misery he caused people around the world with his totally inept foreign policy. Jimmy's UN ambassador was the worldly former mayor of Atlanta, who knew virtually nothing about world affairs -- Hey it looks so easy doesn't it? Especially if you have no core principles to guide your policy. You can screw up things really bad in a miraculously short period of time.

Jimmy was a talker, he just wasn't very worldly. Sort of like Obama, who is so naive about the world it is truly frightening. The problem was Jimmy wasn't very smart, which shows today with his meddling and attempts to recover his pitiful reputation -- Which he buried with the American people in the deserts of Iran after 444 days of ineptness during the Iranian hostage crisis. You see Jimmy never could muster a credible threat towards Iran, and they played him like a fiddle for it. The Iranian mullahs were smart, Jimmy gave them Iran and they were using it already to their advantage.

When Reagan took office, apparently he had told the Iranians before hand, you will release the hostages immediately, or else ... The Iranians knew Reagan meant it and the game was over. The hostages came home as Reagan was sworn in. Jimmy never lived it down, yet he and drive by media keep trying.

Jimmy Carter still has a lot to answer for. -- The Weekly Standard had an article about this "How Tyranny Came to Zimbabwe" by James Kirchick 06/18/2007. It is a short recap of how this all came about in 1979. And Jimmy Carter was right there in the thick of the wheeling and dealing. It's a long and detailed article of the Carter involvement in creating Mugabe and the horrors he brought to Zimbabwe. The lessons there are hard to find in the drive by press, but they are well worth considering when you think about voting for Obama who is Jimmy Carter II if there ever will be one.

Well worth the time to read.

Now that democratic Zimbabweans have spoken again, I wonder what will President Bush do? Brian Maloney at his Radio Equalizer blog has the latest.