Mr. Peanut Flaunts His Senility

I noticed Jimmy Carter's latest ignorant anti-war rant over the weekend but passed any comment on it because (1) it wasn't anything new and (2) I have this evidently futile belief that as the arguably worst president in American history, this bumpkin's public statements will sooner or later not get covered because they just aren't newsworthy.

Besides, I rationalized, Ed Morrissey wrote up something on it, and even that seemed to be in passing, so I can let this one go.

But no, it's all over talk radio today, and the Cap'n has three trackbacks to his post (soon to be four), so I guess I have to weigh in.

Write it off to peer pressure, I guess.

"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.," [Carter] told a news conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England.

His first problem was his first two words, as thought has very little to do with anything this man says. But I think you can take it at face value that, being a devout pacifist, America's goober plenitpotentiary does indeed consider fighting back against our declared enemies and keeping those we capture locked up for the duration, thereby protecting American lives, a "disgrace."

The Cap'n considers it "particularly despicable" that JEC took these shots while abroad and on the soil of our closest ally in order to help undermine that alliance so as to raise the chances of our eventual defeat. I share the sentiment, but it's difficult for me to muster the same level of wrath as I expect nothing else from this diplomatic gate-crasher who revels in his Masada Complex and is permanently embittered that so few of his countrymen are willing to join him in letting the nation be overrun and massacred to preserve so-called principles that would die right along with it.

Only perhaps in that death would Carter be any less imperiously presumptuous, though only because he doubtless considers himself peace's ultimate martyr:

"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people."

According to the polls, a majority of Americans want the Gitmo captives to stay right where they are, actually. So I see that Gomer's political tin ear is still intact.

Also his robust grasp of linear time, since 9/11, the USS Cole, the African Embassy bombings, the Khobar Towers attack, the first World Trade Center bombings, the Achilli Lauro, the attack on the Marine barracks in Beirut, and the Iranian seizure of our embassy in Tehran, just to cut off at a contextually relevant point, all transpired before Camp X-Ray was ever set up. Does this mean that the Georgia Giant is going to start blaming his 1980 defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan on the phantom "embarrasment" of Gitmo as well? Is Gary Sick still alive to add that bonus chapter?

A handful of neurons must have resumed firing before this next graph, even if only temporarily:

"I wouldn't say [Gitmo]'s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts." Carter said, however, that terrorist acts could not be justified, and that while Guantanamo "may be an aggravating factor ... it's not the basis of terrorism."

Except that "potential" terrorists don't need "impetus and excuses" to wage jihad against the West. They get all the "impetus and excuses" they need from the Koran itself. It's the left-wing propaganda disseminated by the Squire of Plains and his fellow-travelers that "potential" terrorists exploit to turn additional Muslims into full, er, "blown" jihadis. Geez, can't the libs at least make al-Jazeera earn an honest living for a change?

What Carter did declare the "basis of terrorism" is just what you were probably expecting:

"I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false," he said Saturday.

To borrow one of the Rock's old catch-phrases, "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK!!!" It's by Bill Clinton following Carter's inept foreign policy nostrums throughout the '90s that al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein rose to the level of serious national security threats, and by Carter's own incompetent mismanagement that Iran was transformed from a stalwart U.S. ally into an implacable enemy that is on the verge of securing nuclear weapons that they will use against Israel and ourselves. And let's not omit the fact that North Korea would not be in the nuclear "club" today were it not for the strenuous efforts of one James Earl Carter. And that he did for Venezuela a year ago what he did for the Iranians a generation back. And....

Well, you get the idea.

And to think this man wants the biggest state funeral of any American president in history.

And by all means, let him have it - in Red Square, there to be buried inside the Kremlin wall with all his soul mates.

Though shooting his remains out of a cannon seems so much more fitting, somehow.