Well, They Have Great Examples of What NOT to do…
Reuters reports that Secretary of State Rice has been speaking to former Presidents Clinton and Carter about peace in the Middle East.
Rice invited Carter, a vocal critic of Bush administration policies, to the State Department on Wednesday where the two discussed his Arab-Israeli peacemaking efforts in the 1970s
Rice also telephoned another former Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who tried, and ultimately failed, in his eight years in office to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together.
You don’t ask idiots for advice. This is like asking Ted Kennedy for driving lessons…
Clinton’s State Department, the vestiges of which (due to Bush’s “New Tone”) we are still plagued by was an absolute failure in everything they tried to accomplish. Proving, once again, madmen and terrorists can be negotiated with, they’ll just screw you later.
Carter? Good God! Look, I am only 35, I was in kindergarten when Carter took office, but, I can remember the long lines at the gas pumps and watching my parents shake their heads and pray for the hostages Carter left to the tender mercies of Iranian terrorists. Unless Dr Rice is looking for advice on what does not, has never and will never work, she is talking to the wrong people.
Category: Politics
Maybe they’re asking Clinton and Carter their advice and then doing the opposite.
Could not agree more.
Carter is, arguably, responsible for creating the conditions for the situation we find ourselves in today.
Clinton is responsible for glossing over the ramp-up and wagging the dog to deflect from personal-behavior crisis.
And to think a woman as smart as Dr. Rice even feels she needs to ask these guys for advice? Yikes.
Why not just ask Albright?
Why not just ask Albright?
Read the article, she consults that idiot too…
Hearing about Rice talking to Carter and Clinton about anything makes my head hurt. These worthless men have done a lot of harm criticizing President Bush any chance they get. Carter? Come on. What are they thinking?!
Jonn wrote: Well, I suppose they figure if they talk to the two imbeciles, it might keep them somewhat quiet. It’s obvious that neither have anything worthwhile to offer – but they both have huge egos that need the attention.
By the way, welcome, Renwaa. We’ll be in your neighborhood in just four more days!
Ah, yes. The egos. I didn’t consider that and yet, nothing relevant came out of the meeting. Hehe.
As for my neighborhood, the agua cerros (is that right) are brutal right now. I think we had a monsoon this afternoon. My swimming pool will soon overflow–as in 1/2 inch more of rain or if someone uses it and displaces the water!!!!
Jonn wrote: Pool? Yanqui colonialista!
The dry season’s coming – probably on Thursday 🙂 . All I care is that the Bodega Mi Amiga still has cuban cigars and rum! I can smoke and drink in the rain.Â
Pamela at Atlas Shrugs had more yesterday on the Carter-Rice meetings.