Jimmy Carter: Iran Is Nothing To Worry About

By
Omri Ceren
– September 23, 2007Posted in: Democratic Politics, Iran

Oh Jimmy Carter. We liked you better when you were less “the Jews control America but if we work together we can drive them away” and more shutting the hell up. Which was never, but that’s kind of our opening line when someone chooses to just effing own a stereotype. And you, you own yours.

Not content with urging urging Iowa voters to reject “knee-jerk” supporters of Israel – because the vicious, frothing at the mouth anti-Israel side is so level-headed and thoughtful – Jimmy Carter wants you to know that things are just fine with Iran:

In “The Gathering Storm,” his history of World War II, Winston Churchill recalls how President Roosevelt once asked for suggestions about what the war should be called. “The Unnecessary War,” Britain’s wartime prime minister replied. “There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle.”… Former President Jimmy Carter says we shouldn’t take the Iran threats seriously. “I think it would be almost inconceivable that Iran would commit suicide by launching one or two missiles of any kind against the nation of Israel,” he said. Many of Churchill’s critics said the same about Nazi Germany in the 1930s. But apocalyptic fanatics have been known to be suicidal, and Carter, of course, has been wrong about Iran before.

The last time Jimmy Carter said that things were just fine with Iran, it took Ronald Reagan to even start cleaning up that mess.

References:
* Carter Urges Iowa Voters Not to Back "Knee-Jerk Supporters" of Israel [Smooth Stone]
* The Middle East’s Gathering Storm [Investors Business Daily]

Previously:
* Carter "Nauseated" By Jewish Settlements
* Is Jimmy Carter Just An Old-Fashioned Christian Fundamentalist, Anti-Semitic Bigot?
* In Just Seven Short Paragraphs, Jimmy Carter Tells 2 Lies, Makes 2 Incoherent Arguments, Takes an Anti-Israel Stance that the State Department Mocks, and Just Generally Annoys the Hell Out of Us

Cross-posted to:
* The Astute Bloggers

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