I don't need interaction with a group of people that treat there women and children like dirt, behead people that don't agree with their religious beliefs, hide in church's and schools when a real army shows up. And, amazingly, just a couple days after Reagan took office, the hostage's were released. Carter was an idiot then, and he's an idiot now. gypsyman
I've been around and I can tell you that the abuse of women and children is not something that is unique to one particular culture. Unfortunately it can be found in every country, every church and every school.
The difference is that some of your more industrially and technologicaly developed nations are better at hiding their dirty laundry.
So many times I hear people voice their opinions as though the U.S. is without "sin" and can do no wrong. I find this quite disturbing. How quickly we forget that not too long ago we were trading slaves and our own government was waging a
genocidal war on the indiginous people (men, women ,and CHILDREN of this continent). Is it really possible that we as a nation have "evolved" to perfection in just a couple centuries. Not likely.
As for Carter: well, he may not be the wisest POLITICIAN as honesty is not considered a strong attribute in this arena. But in the midst of the corruption and all the other political and corporate influences that clandestinely work to undermine PEACE and ENLIGHTENMENT in the world for the insatiable aquisition of PROFITS and POWER, the man managed play a key roll in the
emergance of peace between two cultures that had been squabling for
centuries.
I am neither Republican or Democrat, "Left or "Right, "Conservative" or "Liberal". I refuse to limit my continual growth and developement as a human being by limiting myself with such enclosing and classifying lables.
I am an individual, and free thinker, veteran, and citizen of these United States that feels there are better ways, and I prefer to represent my nation as one who strives for peace, intellectual growth, empathy, and the passing on of this knowledge to those who have not yet had the opportunity of such privilige, especially here at home.
Not the greatest President or smartest politician...no. But Carter did something that the last three administrations have either failed to do, or refused to attempt; and that is help to achieve peace where there was none. I say Carter is a man, he's human, and therefore he's
not perfect. I say this in the face of the absurd supposition that many Americans seem to have that we as a Nation are..."perfect". And I say Carter is OK.