St. Jimmy of the Plains (Georgia, that is)
Slate.com has an interesting article by Chris Suellentrop on how Jimmy Carter, our most sanctimonious president until George W. Bush, continues to cause trouble long after he was overwhelmingly thrown out of office in 1980 for incompetence.
Suellentrop focuses on Carter's free-lance actions undermining the policies of subsequent presidents, Bush the Elder and Bill Clinton. The only problem is that the writer doesn't go far enough in assessing the damage Carter's actions caused the U.S. in North Korea.
The agreement St. Jimmy came away with in 1994 was not only his own rather than Clinton's, it effectively let North Korea know that Clinton was ready to bomb its nuclear facilities out of existence.
This led to the hidden North Korean nuclear program, post-Jimbo agreement, discovered only in the past few years. The North Korean facilities are now dispersed and we don't know where they all are.
St. Jimmy's most historic accomplishment, however, was his founding of the first Islamic Republic in the world. It was his abandonment of the Shah of Iran that allowed the Shah to fall and Khomeini to return from exile in France.
Iran learned from St. Jimmy's subsequent trip to North Korea to disperse its nuclear facilities. The state department should lift his passport before he spreads peace and nuclear programs to other countries.
St. George is busily establishing the second Islamic Republic in Iraq. Stand by for further developments on that.
Suellentrop focuses on Carter's free-lance actions undermining the policies of subsequent presidents, Bush the Elder and Bill Clinton. The only problem is that the writer doesn't go far enough in assessing the damage Carter's actions caused the U.S. in North Korea.
The agreement St. Jimmy came away with in 1994 was not only his own rather than Clinton's, it effectively let North Korea know that Clinton was ready to bomb its nuclear facilities out of existence.
This led to the hidden North Korean nuclear program, post-Jimbo agreement, discovered only in the past few years. The North Korean facilities are now dispersed and we don't know where they all are.
St. Jimmy's most historic accomplishment, however, was his founding of the first Islamic Republic in the world. It was his abandonment of the Shah of Iran that allowed the Shah to fall and Khomeini to return from exile in France.
Iran learned from St. Jimmy's subsequent trip to North Korea to disperse its nuclear facilities. The state department should lift his passport before he spreads peace and nuclear programs to other countries.
St. George is busily establishing the second Islamic Republic in Iraq. Stand by for further developments on that.
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