Demented and Unstable Old Man
Miserable ex-President Jimmy Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette:
“We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered,” he said. “But that’s been a radical departure from all previous administration policies.”
“The concept of pre-emptive war” is an intellectual construct made by people who are too fucking stupid to recognize the many reasons why our nation goes to war. Our rationale is inherent to our situation in the world. When we attack an enemy, there may or may not be a proximate cause or some obvious trigger, but that is only one factor among many. The circumstances are clear enough to honest people, but to this present generation of anti-war Democrats, they want to pretend that —on the sole basis of whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction— we invaded the traitor Michael Moore’s kite-flying paradise of Iraq.
It is false to believe that America doesn’t attack its enemies before, during, and after —or first, next, then, and last. America attacks its enemies whenever it wishes and by whatever means it can. It does so obscurely or it tapes itself in the act of its ultra-violent missions for later viewings on film day with the boys.
The romantics amongst us never learned what we do: we liberate and ameliorate. We prop ‘em up and knock ‘em down. We’re the best friends and the worst enemies any of these bastards ever knew.
But don’t listen to what Jimmy Carter thinks about what our country does or is or stands for. He is an an ignorant and supercilious old man. A few years ago, when Loudmouth Matthews asked him to draw a parallel between the American Revolution and the War for Iraq, Carter said:
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 colonial‘s 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.
Is it really possible to think this way? To dismiss the necessity of our ancestors’ fighting in the American Revolution because it could have been chatted over instead? What sort of pansy-assed nonsense is that? Who the fuck has ever believed any such thing? It is an embarrassment to know that this seditous old scab was once our nation’s leader!
