Don't you think? Today, George W. Bush embraced Pope Benedict the XVI. Yesterday, former President Jimmy Carter embraced one of the top terrorists in the world...
I guess I will never understand liberals... How can they sleep at night? They do everything that they can to undermine the greatest force for peace and individual prosperity the world has ever known and they meet with people who seek out our and our allies destruction. I mean really... Had the USSR captured as much land as the US did during WWII, how much would it have given back to the citizens of the country? Oh wait... they did capture almost as much land as we did, and they gave none of it back... The captured land went from being occupied by the Germans to being occupied by the USSR... Contrast that with what did the US do? We liberated the land that Germany and their allies captured. We did not keep any of it, it all went back to being free lands.
We, as a country, stopped the spread of Communism and communist dictators and each time, we have left the countries we were liberating or protecting to govern themselves. Yet, liberals hate this country... They do not believe in individual liberty, all liberty is to come from the government... They do not believe in the power of the individual, we all need government to pay our bills and bail us out of bad decisions. They do not believe that we are smart enough to choose our own leaders... just look at the screwed up proportional distribution of delegates in their primaries and the need for elite super delegates to decide the nominee... How can any thinking person agree with these people.
Now we see Jimmy Carter emboldening a group of people who seek to destroy the United States and Israel. He just gave Hamas credibility when he met with them in the name of peace... I guess that as a conservative I am too much of a realist. The perfect world where we just wish our problems away by talking to people is not possible. There are too many bad people in the world for the liberal Utopia where we all just get along to be possible. Do I wish it were different? Yes. But wishing only leads to idealism. Carter thinks that he can go and negotiate peace with these people, but it will only be peace until they decide to start killing each other again... Didn't he learn that his foreign policy does not work?
I really wish that Utopia could be achieved... Unfortunately unless Christ comes again, it can not be. Human nature will not allow it, and even if it could be achieved it could not be long lived. Desire for power, corruption and greed would take root, and that Utopia would be destroyed... Yes... really... we as humans would screw it up some how... Just look at what we did to Eden...
Good Night...
Prayers,
Pisio
Edited for update: Once again we see why you do not sit down and give these people face time.
I guess I will never understand liberals... How can they sleep at night? They do everything that they can to undermine the greatest force for peace and individual prosperity the world has ever known and they meet with people who seek out our and our allies destruction. I mean really... Had the USSR captured as much land as the US did during WWII, how much would it have given back to the citizens of the country? Oh wait... they did capture almost as much land as we did, and they gave none of it back... The captured land went from being occupied by the Germans to being occupied by the USSR... Contrast that with what did the US do? We liberated the land that Germany and their allies captured. We did not keep any of it, it all went back to being free lands.
We, as a country, stopped the spread of Communism and communist dictators and each time, we have left the countries we were liberating or protecting to govern themselves. Yet, liberals hate this country... They do not believe in individual liberty, all liberty is to come from the government... They do not believe in the power of the individual, we all need government to pay our bills and bail us out of bad decisions. They do not believe that we are smart enough to choose our own leaders... just look at the screwed up proportional distribution of delegates in their primaries and the need for elite super delegates to decide the nominee... How can any thinking person agree with these people.
Now we see Jimmy Carter emboldening a group of people who seek to destroy the United States and Israel. He just gave Hamas credibility when he met with them in the name of peace... I guess that as a conservative I am too much of a realist. The perfect world where we just wish our problems away by talking to people is not possible. There are too many bad people in the world for the liberal Utopia where we all just get along to be possible. Do I wish it were different? Yes. But wishing only leads to idealism. Carter thinks that he can go and negotiate peace with these people, but it will only be peace until they decide to start killing each other again... Didn't he learn that his foreign policy does not work?
I really wish that Utopia could be achieved... Unfortunately unless Christ comes again, it can not be. Human nature will not allow it, and even if it could be achieved it could not be long lived. Desire for power, corruption and greed would take root, and that Utopia would be destroyed... Yes... really... we as humans would screw it up some how... Just look at what we did to Eden...
Good Night...
Prayers,
Pisio
Edited for update: Once again we see why you do not sit down and give these people face time.
2 comments:
Is "meeting" with an individual the same thing as "embracing"? I don't think so. I don't even think that meeting with an individual in the name of negotiating peace means that one condones the the atrocities that another has or continues to commit. The type of diplomacy that The Carter Foundation advocates has been effective in preventing many civil wars around the world and has facilitated fair elections in many unstable and politically volatile countries. Yes, some of his attempts to broker peace have fallen flat on their face. Not all of the Carter Foundation's tactics have been accepted by the world just like the world has been slow to fully integrate the teachings of Christ into both our personal and global relationships. But just because some attempts have been slow in working does not mean that the world should not move in the direction of peaceful and mature negotiations. Even with deplorable and ruthless terrorist or dictators. Not talking with adversaries merely widens the gap further alienates them from the rest of the world. Imagine 2 bullies in a high school. One who is not reached out to and the other who is reached out to by caring and compassionate parties. Which of the two is more likely to change his way for the better?
I would also like to point out that Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. president to host a pope at the white house, but I would imagine that you are well aware of that.
I would challenge you to place the life long body of work of both Jimmy Carter (google the Carter Foundation for an overview of some of Carter's humanitarian undertakings) and of George W Bush respectively along side the Gospels of Jesus Christ and tell me which of the two men has better emulated and implemented the teachings of Jesus Christ in their endeavors.
God Bless Rod
PS congrats on your new home
Thanks for commenting Rod. I will be curious to see how history views Dub-yah...
Your analogy with bullies falls short, as generally when you "reach out" to a bully you attempt to convince them to change their behavior. Carter is legitimizing their behavior and in denial about who Hamas is:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/04/18/the-damage-of-jimmy-carter.htmlhttp://www.usnews.com/articles/opinion/mzuckerman/2008/04/18/the-damage-of-jimmy-carter.html
He is abusing his status as a former president and needlessly endangering himself and those we pay to protect him. If anyone should be meeting with Hamas in order to reach out to them it is the sitting president and his administration... not someone trying to create a legacy for himself because he failed miserably as president.
The Carter foundation may do a lot of good, but it does not excuse reckless behavior and undermining the foreign policy of a sitting president... regardless of how messed up that foreign policy may be...
Thanks for the well wishes on the house. I hope that you and your beloved can visit the three of us soon.
God Bless!
Brian
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