Former President Carter would like everyone to think that President Bush's foreign policy is the worst. Gee, there's a surprise. Carter has special knowledge and insight into bad foreign policy, considering that his foreign policy woes included the abomination known as the Iran hostage situation that lasted for 440 days and ended only when the US elected a new President, Ronald Reagan.
Carter refused to treat the Iranian embassy takeover as anything other than an act of war. His vacillation and refusal to take military action right away not only emboldened the Islamists in Tehran, but emboldened generations of Islamic terrorists who saw the US as a weak willed country that would not take the steps necessary to safeguard its facilities and citizens around the world.
Carter refused to deal with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan with anything stronger than a refusal to participate in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Yet, he thinks that Bush's policies, that included liberating 50 million people from thuggish, dictatorial, and Islamist regimes in Iraq and Afghanistan is a failure?
Who exactly did Carter liberate with his policies? Certainly it wasn't the US hostages from the embassy takeover. Certainly it wasn't the country of Afghanistan that suffered for years as a result of the Soviet invasion. He simply paid lip service to the notion of human rights around the world as dictatorships kept killing and ruining lives.
Carter simply doesn't know when to fade off the international stage. His words continue to carry weight even though his anti-Israel sentiments and pro-Palestinian terrorism stances are ignored. Anyone who savages Bush in print is lauded.
UPDATE:
Lots of other folks are taking Carter to task for his comments including: Don Surber, Sister Toldjah, AJ Strata, and QandO.
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