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Thu Oct-11-07 06:22 PM
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Jimmy Carter interview starting on PBS |
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Thu Oct-11-07 06:30 PM
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1. Credits Bush for diplomacy in Sudan |
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infinitely better than Clinton in Sudan He says.
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Thu Oct-11-07 06:33 PM
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2. Carter talks about increased use of military intervention |
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Thu Oct-11-07 06:41 PM
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3. "Thousands of people dead..." I forgot he was going to be on, so I only caught the last minute. |
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But it was a good minute. When is the last we have EVER heard ANYONE on network TV make mention of the body count all that our military "interventions" leave behind?
I only wish he had expanded on those facts and gone deeper. But at least he went as far as he did -- which is farther than anyone else has gone in public.
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Thu Oct-11-07 06:43 PM
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4. The book is probably very good. |
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I wish I had time or could make time to read books.
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Thu Oct-11-07 06:45 PM
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5. Carter never bites his tongue on humanitarian |
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issues. Even when he was President.
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Thu Oct-11-07 07:19 PM
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6. Sorry, but that's not precisely true. The massacres of East Timor happened on his watch. |
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I don't entirely blame Carter, Kissinger was running the foreign policy show and I think Carter was in way over his head. I'm sure the pressures from the shadow government were fierce.
I'll give him props for all the ways he's tried to make things right since his presidency. And I won't forget when and where he fell short, even though I can understand how and why it happened.
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Thu Oct-11-07 07:21 PM
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7. I was young at the time, explain how Kissinger worked for Carter? |
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That would surprise me if true.
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Thu Oct-11-07 08:15 PM
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8. No, not working for Carter, he set Carter up. The initial invasion of East Timor happened |
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under Ford, when Kissinger was Sec. of State (held over from the Nixon administration), but the arms sales to Indonesia actually increased under Carter.
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