Jimmy Carter says that while he will talk with an organization that launches attacks against unarmed civilians and is listed as a group responsible for terrorist attacks by most western countries, Hamas, he doesn’t ”see any redeeming features” of another terrorist organization, Al Qaeda.
I can’t seem to get the link to work correctly so here’s the low tech connection : http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=81983
According to Jimmy, the difference between Hamas and Al Qaeda is that Hamas has the support of their constituents. To Jimmy an elected government is legitimate and should be accepted regardless of what it’s policies are.
Using Jimmy’s logic, Jimmy should also agree that the Civil war was unjust and just the North imposing it’s will on the South. After all, the Confederate States of America had the support of its constituents.
If only Abraham Lincoln had had the benefit of Jimmy Carter’s logic the country could have avoided the war and the loss of 620,000 American lives. It would have been so much better for everyone……except for the 4,000,000 slaves that were emancipated.
Revisions/extensions (10:59 am 4/22/2008; steveegg) - I think I’ve got the right embed code. Still, I like the folks at Breitbart, including the absent-from-blogging Ian Schwartz, who if memory serves is one of the main guys behind the TV version of Breitbart.
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Didn’t Al Qaeda once have the support of the Afghanis? What a fucking buffoon the Peanut Farmer is.
Say, did you see how fast Hamas made Carter look like the old fool he is?
I guess it’s open for debate whether the Afganis “supported” AQ….there weren’t any elections. I was originally thinking Nazis as the comparison but they had the same issue, no real elections.
I don’t see how Carter can even start with these knuckleheads. How do you believe anything they say when their core belief remains that Israel doesn’t have the right to exist….how does a peace process or truce have any integrity with that issue still in the mix?
I wish I knew how a peace process with either Hamas or
Fatahthe PLO has integrity. If I were feeling charitable (I’m not), I would say that Carter was hoping lightning would strike twice.On a related note, the most-undercovered element of the Middle East over the last 7 years has been how relations have thawed between Jordan and Israel. Hmmm, you don’t suppose the Bush administration had anything to do with that, do you?