Jimmy Carter really is a piece of work.
The former US President who presided over a deep loss of confidence in the country which culminated in his failure to take effective action to stop Iran going completely rogue then abducting and imprisoning US diplomats there for over a year, now opines that the US needs to make nice with the Islamic Republic by - wait for it - sending them gifts of nuclear technology and fuel.
The fact that Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" doesn't seem to alter the former US president's view.
He should pay attention to what even some in Victoria's notorious Socialist Left of the Labor Party think of Iran. I was astonished to see chunky leftard and Carlo Carli staffer Chris Anderson write and put his name to an entirely commendable State Conference urgency motion which echoed OC criticism of the evil theocracy in very specific terms listing their repeated abuses of minorities and human rights in the country.
No doubt it was part of a fiendish Left plot to curry favour with recently arrived Iranian dissidents for the purposes of multiple recruitment but you couldn't fault him on the motion itself, which didn't get voted on prior to the closure of conference.
If the SL can rise above defending vile dictatorships purely because they hate America, then it is a very promising sign of their maturity.
It's a shame wet former US presidents can't do the same.
Game on.
|