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Audacity of Truth
Marginalizing Terror:
"Why? Whether it’s al Qaeda Central, or two twisted, perverted, cowardly knock-off jihadists here in Boston. Why do they do what they do?”
VP Biden, speaking at the memorial service for slain MIT police offer Sean Collier - 4/24/2013
How do we know our Gitmo policy is right?
Because Jimmy Carter says it’s "disgraceful" (on foreign soil, I should add).
Captain Ed delivers a smackdown of Carter’s comments:
But even beyond the folly of Carter’s assertions, the fact that he decided to attack the military and the American administration while abroad marks him as particularly despicable. He went to the soil of our strongest ally and attempted to undermine their support for the war effort in Iraq. If he succeeds, then American soldiers will wind up facing even more danger in the country at a time when we hope to be readying the Iraqis to stand on their own. No American should do such a thing during wartime, especially an ex-President — even one as relentlessly clueless as Jimmy Carter.
Carter has long shredded his charitable reputation by reminding us how inept his grasp of foreign policy was and is. Now he has revealed himself as a man of low character and relative loyalty. That may surprise few at this point of his post-office career, but the extent of his perfidy still disappoints nonetheless.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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Who is Jimmy Carter to speak? As I recall, under his watch Americans were taken hostage in Iran for over a year under far worse conditions than Gitmo. The only reason they stopped was because they knew that President Reagan wasn’t just going to just stand by and wring his hands…
We need misguided morons like this one! And Turbin Durbin too. They verbalize what most Democrats really feel but are afraid to say.
Democrats are UNAMERICAN!
AG: I’m not sure why anyone gives JC any credibility on the world stage. He’s served this country better not being president (like with Habitat for Humanity) and I think he should stick to that rather than making idiotic comments (esp on foreign soil) denigrating the WOT.
Shooter: I don’t think Democrats are UnAmerican. Most of them are just misguided (IMO).
“Because Jimmy Carter says it’s “disgraceful” (on foreign soil, I should add).”
We live in an age of very high telecommunications interlinkage. Why does it matter where carter says something?
It’s not rocket science actus. When our men and women are fighting overseas, it’s not an especially smart move to denigrate their mission, especially on foreign soil. I don’t suppose troop moral means anything to Jimmy Carter, though, nor do I doubt he worries that his comments will be picked up by our enemies and used as propaganda for their cause, not ours.
“When our men and women are fighting overseas, it’s not an especially smart move to denigrate their mission, especially on foreign soil.”
Why does it matter where it is said? Can’t it be broadcast to and from anywhere? If not, wouldn’t it be better to say it abroad, where these poor, malleable soldiers, are less likely to hear it? Wouldn’t it be better for us not to repeat it, so that they are less likely to hear it?
This is such sillyness. Can there really be no criticising this war?
You can criticize the war all you want, but don’t expect to be exempt from having your criticisms criticized.
And if you don’t understand why it’s wrong for a prominent Ameriacn ex-prez standing on foreign soil essentially saying that our men and women are dying in Iraq for no reason, then I can’t help you.
“And if you don’t understand why it’s wrong for a prominent Ameriacn ex-prez standing on foreign soil essentially saying that our men and women are dying in Iraq for no reason, then I can’t help you”
I see no reason why the location matters. I think its quite a big problem to have soldiers dying for no reason. Its not like him saying it here wouldn’t mean it wouldn’t reach them over there.
Our soldiers aren’t dying for “no reason” contrary to the constant liberal talking point that they are. Oh, and if you want to get into an argument about the whether or not the war in Iraq was justified, do it somewhere else. Been there, got the Tshirt.
If this is such a strong belief of yours, I urge you to tell the next mother of a fallen soldier that you meet that her son died for no reason. If you’re still standing at that point, please post back here and tell us what she had to say.
“Our soldiers aren’t dying for “no reason” contrary to the constant liberal talking point that they are.”
I think they’re dying for several reasons, and it would be a big deal if they were dying for no reaosn. A Big deal worth discussing.
People do tend to shoot the messenger. But please, tell me why its such a big deal to discuss this outside of the country.
Already explained, actus. See comment number 5 in this string, posted by me.
You said its not smart to denigrate the mission specially on foreign soil. I’d like to know whats so special about foreign soil.
It’s not smart to denigrate it either way, but on foreign soil is even worse. Captain Ed explained this pretty well in the exerpt I linked to, actus.
“It’s not smart to denigrate it either way, but on foreign soil is even worse. Captain Ed explained this pretty well in the exerpt I linked to, actus.”
His problem is that britons heard it. They can hear it from our soil or theirs. They’re quite capable of making up their minds on this iraq business on their own.
It’s been explained, you disagree and that’s fine. Maybe one of these days you’ll truly understand why people complain about things like this.