Carter's Sickening Moral Equivalence

Carter has once again made vile and repulsive statements in his quest to legitimize terrorists. This comes from his stint in Cairo a few days ago:

Mr. Carter's speech late Thursday in Cairo comes just one day after an Israeli air strike killed 21 people in the Gaza Strip.

"My hope is that there will be no more rockets coming out of Gaza and that was my primary request to Hamas leaders and I hope they will comply," said Carter. "And if they do comply my hope is that Israel will not launch any more attacks as they did yesterday within which I think 21 people died. If that conflict can stop then I will be quite pleased. I am not blaming one side or another. But any act, any act by Israelis or Palestinians that causes deaths of innocent civilians in my opinion, in my definition is an act of terrorism."

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to make the leap that he quite well believes that if America kills civilians by accident, that it too is an act of terrorism. After all, any act that causes the death of innocent civilians is an act of terrorism in Carter's deranged world.

Not only does Carter engage in equivocation between the acts of terrorists - who go out of their way to kill and maim civilians, and the Israeli military, which goes out of its way to avoid killing civilians but will sometimes do so because the terrorists have so completely wrapped themselves in a cocoon of human shields, but he completely ignores the facts such as they are.

He ignores the fact that Israel would not have to go into Gaza time and time again if the Palestinian terrorists simply stopped attempting to kill Israelis with rockets, mortars, and infiltration attempts. Gaza is fully in control of Hamas - and they could stop the violence if they so chose simply by ceasing to attack Israel. They do not because they are ideologically bound to the destruction of Israel.

Carter's efforts are nothing less than a sickening attempt to legitimize terrorist groups and provides them plenty of juicy soundbites that they, and other jihadi groups will use and abuse to no end to justify their carnage around the world. They will point to Carter's statements as part of their grievance theater that the US and Israel engages in terrorism when civilians are killed, and that they are simply fighting back against the imperial ambitions or other such blatherings.

UPDATE:
Well, Carter has finally left Syria, and arrived in Saudi Arabia, courtesy of a Syrian jet. Lovely.