Today's Secure Freedom Minute with Frank Gaffney: Official narratives this week in Washington marking Jimmy Carter’s passing reflect a highly selective rendering of his White House years.
If the past is indeed prologue, his many grave mistakes must be recalled, not just his few positive achievements. Three debacles, and what has flowed from them, remain particular blights on our national security and the planet.
Carter’s administration embraced the Ayatollah Khomeini, only to see his revolutionaries hold Americans hostage, enslave the people of Iran under Sharia tyranny and foster jihadist terror worldwide.
As President Trump is warning, Carter surrendered the strategically vital Panama Canal, now in Chinese hands. Carter’s weakness encouraged the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, spawning five decades of chaos, war, and terrorism there.
Basically, the only thing one can say for Jimmy Carter’s presidency is that it wasn’t as complete a failure as Joe Biden’s.
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Carter wasn't quite as bad as he gets credit for. He began the deregulation of the transport industry and appointed Paul Volker to the Fed, though it took Reagan to get real results from these actions. Still, he did enough damage to the country to put him among the worst presidents ever -- until Obama and Biden came along to do enough evil to make Carter look good.