Has Jimmy Carter officaly gone nuts ?

Question

I ask because Carter is stating The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements .

Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was "criminal."

See link - http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid=1181813074587

Question - Is it legal for a man this metally ill to walk the streets ?

Answer 1

Everyone could tell Jimmy was nuts when he claimed that the American Revolution was un-necessary

"Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonials' really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.

Does the catastrophic ex-prez really think the war in Iraq is bloodier than the Vietnam War, the Korean War, World War II, World War I, the Civil War ...?

Note to Jimmy: Canada did not begin to gain independence until 1867. Australia did not receive partial independence as a commonwealth until 1901. India did not gain independence until 1947, and all the Indians who were killed by the British would hardly describe their deaths as "nonviolent."

Jimmy Carter on MSNBC Hardball

Answer 2

Carter is not nuts. The mistake you are making--and that the Bush administration, etc. is also making-is in not looking at this from the point of view of the Palestinians.

NOTE: I am NOT saying the Palistinian view is right--I don't. Nor do I have any use for Hamas--if they all drop dead it would do everybody a favor.

BUT--If you are a Palestinian, here's what you'd see: they elected a government--Hamas. And then, after all the rhetoric about democracy and self-determination, the West won't even talk to that democratically elected government because we don't like it. And, to make matters worse, the West actively backs a counter-group attempting to overthrow that democratically elected government.

/abd this is the point Carter is trying to get across. If we are going to get the Palestinians--and their government-to come to the table and start working on solutions, we're going to have to hold our collective noses and deal with the people the Palestinian people elected.

Answer 3

The angel Gabriel told me in Aug. 1973 that Jimmy Carter is the Anti-chist and that he is going to change his name and divorce his wife!
Obama is going to die first and then the Anti-christ who was one of the previous 7 Presidents will take his place!

Rev. 17:10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, [and] the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
These 7 kings were;
1. Gerald Ford
2. Jimmy Carter
3. Ronald Reagan
4. George H. W. Bush
5. Bill Clinton
6. George W. Bush.... is spoken of in the present tense (and one is) because until Reagan died all 7 were alive!
7. Barack Obama.......and one is yet to come! He will die a few days after he raises taxes!
Obama is also in Dan. 11:20
Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes [in] the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.
Rev. 17:11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

Answer 4

"The United States and Israel decided to punish all the people in Palestine and did everything they could to deter a compromise between Hamas and Fatah," he said.

^ I think what Carter was trying to hit on was correct - judging from his experience in the Iranian hostage crisis he has learned that carving the same mistakes as with Eisenhower in 1953 would only create the typical framework for regional violence and fueled resentment against the US and Israel.

Democracy in Palestine has worked in the favor of the people there but is it just to say that the elected officials should've been replaced by unelected hands that would support the US and its security ally, Israel?

Answer 5

I actually remember Jimmy Carter as a President when I was in middle school. He still has a right to his opinion, and he should be respected for it. I say why favor either Hamas or Fatah, when eventually both will bite us in the rear?

Answer 6

"Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian government, had proven itself to be far more organized in its political and military showdowns with the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas."

Would you like to make a logical argument rebutting Carter's? If not, then stop insulting our Nobel Peace Prize winning former president, you un-American unpatriotic hack. Why do you hate Democracy? Is it because you hate our freedoms like the terrorists?

Answer 7

My answer is as follows:

I read the article you linked to in the Jerusalem Post and nowhere in the AP article did anyone of merit say,suggest or call President Carter a lunatic. I did notice however, some derisive comments by people upset at Carter's scolding comments. Many of the more irate posts were very similar to your own non-objective rhetorical question. Resorting to declaring President Carter a luny in order to express their disapproval of his views about the way the West has jumped at the chance to widen the rivaly between the Palestinian factions of Fateh and Hamas is to be expected esp by right- wing Israelis . No doubt the rivalry between Fateh and Hamas has become very violent and bitter. The split will only retard the process of resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over settlements and squatters rights to disputed regions that were annexed and occupied by Israel following the 1967 War. As an onlooker here in the US any prolongation of the conflict is deplorable.

So, in summary,

I think you have asked a rhetorical question inorder to put down former President Jimmy Carter. That said, I have to ask myself this rhetorical sarcastic Q: "Gee, one has to wonder why he won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Egypt's Anwar Sadat and the right-wing President of Israeli Menachem Began? Since the Camp David Peace Accords the peace process has not moved one bit toward a peaceful resolution under any of the Presidents that have succeeded President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter39; namely, under Presidents' Ronald Wilson Reagan40, George Herbert Walker Bush41, William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton42, and George Walker "Dubya" Bush43.

Maybe to run and become the President of the US some form of me(n)tal illness is a job prerequisite. The masochistic-sadistic tendencies of his Highness Emperor Bush43, the supreme "commander-decider guy "who has sucessfully by mismanagement turned Iraq into a hellhole and a terrorist hatchery, he worst of the crowd, epitomizes all the latest pathologies any Resident of the Whitehouse must have.

I will not list those pathologies because the list is so long, it would become boring to read. But feel free to imagine them starting with A for Arrogant..., B for Braggadocio... so on and so on and so on until you reach X for xenophobe..., Y for Yellow-Belly..., and Z for Zygotic ztem zell Zavior of the 21zt zentury. Remember to include L for" Linguistically impeded Psuedo-Texan Cowboy" Zomany ZZzs, as I zaid.as I warned
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May I politely suggest: take a pill or drink a beer and try to chill out.

Answer 8

The thing is Carter should have said nothing at all because, he was once the President of the USA and people listen to him..crazy or not...The USA policy about Hamas is no secret and all was known before that, if they won the election then the USA would not recognize them, after all how could we? There is no way... and Carter is badly wrong to make such a statement as he did in public for the world to hear.

Answer 9

Not at all, I agree with him on that point. Hamas was duly elected by the Palestinian people, and the international community should have honored thier collective decision.

If the Palestinians want to be represented by a terrorist group unalterably committed to the destruction of a soveriegn state, then at least we know where we stand with them.

Answer 10

No, he has not. Hamas, like it or not, was Democratically elected by the Palestinians. How can one assume to tout Democracy if one does not recognize the fruits of it? You can't pick and choose which Democracy to validate and which not. That rings of hypocrisy, don't you think?