While following his death, many are sure to write and publish favorable things about Carter, leading with his being a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. But per the words of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, I come to bury Carter not to praise him.
Just before I arrived at Emory University in 1983, Jimmy Carter had set up shop there with his presidential library, the Carter Center. A friend correctly referred to it as his presidency in exile. Indeed, after his one term in office, leading the country in “malaise,” Carter went home to Georgia as one of the most unsuccessful US presidents ever.
The American economy staggered under Carter. For the last 443 days of his presidency, America and dozens of Americans were literally held hostage by Iran due to Carter’s inept managing of US relations with the Shah, throwing him under the bus, and allowing the take-over of the US embassy in Tehran to stand. Once, as a student at Emory, I was in a class that Carter was lecturing to about the Middle East. He shared a behind the scenes “negotiation” he had with Libya, sending a private message to its dictator that he knew the coordinates of a certain Libyan military installation, and threatened to destroy it if Qaddafi did not stand down. If Carter tried such things with Iran, he failed miserably.
Other than abandoning the Shah, a long time US ally, Carter paved the way for the extremist Islamic mullahs to seize control of Iran, enabling Ayatollah Khomeini to take control, institute an evil brand of Islam that has kept Iranians hostage since, and made Iran the largest supporter and funder of terror whose fingerprints and blood stains have harmed the entire world.
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Just before I arrived at Emory University in 1983, Jimmy Carter had set up shop there with his presidential library, the Carter Center. A friend correctly referred to it as his presidency in exile. Indeed, after his one term in office, leading the country in “malaise,” Carter went home to Georgia as one of the most unsuccessful US presidents ever.
The American economy staggered under Carter. For the last 443 days of his presidency, America and dozens of Americans were literally held hostage by Iran due to Carter’s inept managing of US relations with the Shah, throwing him under the bus, and allowing the take-over of the US embassy in Tehran to stand. Once, as a student at Emory, I was in a class that Carter was lecturing to about the Middle East. He shared a behind the scenes “negotiation” he had with Libya, sending a private message to its dictator that he knew the coordinates of a certain Libyan military installation, and threatened to destroy it if Qaddafi did not stand down. If Carter tried such things with Iran, he failed miserably.
Other than abandoning the Shah, a long time US ally, Carter paved the way for the extremist Islamic mullahs to seize control of Iran, enabling Ayatollah Khomeini to take control, institute an evil brand of Islam that has kept Iranians hostage since, and made Iran the largest supporter and funder of terror whose fingerprints and blood stains have harmed the entire world.
