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Thursday, February 02, 2006
Blind hatred
I want to be careful not to represent knowledge I don't have. But when Captain Ed has a go at Carter and Hamas, it seems like he ignores at least one salient historical fact:
Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, and despite the group's militant history, there is a chance the soon-to-be Palestinian leaders could turn away from violence, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday.
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Wrong! If people use democracy to elect hate-filled bigots and murderous terrorists into power, then they should suffer the consequences of that choice, not get a free pass from the world. Hamas explicitly calls for the destruction on Israel in its charter and has refused to change its position, even after its electoral victory. It has conducted attacks on Israeli citizens, both suicide bombings and quasi-military rocket attacks. It gets its funding from Iran due to its Islamofascist goals and activities, and some evidence exists that it partners with al-Qaeda.
None of this matters to Carter, the fool who first allowed Islamofascism into power with his refusal to support the Shah and his subsequent inaction after Iranians sacked our embassy in Teheran. He continues his decades-long effort to follow in the footsteps of Neville Chamberlain, only he refuses to share in Chamberlain's epiphany about appeasement after Munich. Carter also insisted that Yasser Arafat was ready to make peace, and instead we got stiffed at Oslo and at Wye and wound up with two intifadas as a result.
Rewind to the Carter presidency. Was there any government in the Middle East that turned away from military action against Israel and abandoned a commitment to its destruction? Oh, yeah. Egypt.
Seems to me that Carter is calling for the recognition of Hamas and engagement with the new government aimed toward a lasting peace. Also seems to me that Carter is basing his opinion on relevant, successful experience.
Further, if you look at Iran before the overthrow of the Shah, it's clear that the Islamists in Iran came to power because of the brutal reign of the Shah. The U.S. overthrew Iran's elected government in favor of a tyrannical puppet. Continued U.S. support for the Shah fueled hatred for the U.S. in Iran and around the Middle East.
Such facts, however, interfere with the blind hatred of Jimmy Carter so prevalent in wingnuttia.
