Thursday - February 21, 2002
Why I'm now sure that Bush's "Axis of Evil" is an Accurate
Statement
I read in the news today about Jimmy Carter's
opinion of George Bush's comparison of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea as an Axis of
Evil. I had been in agreement that these are very bad nations, among the worst,
but I had been wondering whether it was good to call them an Axis of Evil as
public policy. But now that Carter has come out against Bush's statement there
is no longer any doubt that Bush is
right.
It seems that the man whose
policies made the United States a laughing stock around the world doesn't agree
with Bush's characterization of these three nations. You see, Jimmy thinks that
good foreign policy consists of convincing your enemies that you love them, no
matter what they do. His "hold hands and sing kumbaya" policy led to the
humiliation of watching the Shah of Iran getting toppled from power and our
cowering in fear of the Ayatollah Khomeini while he held hundreds of Americans
hostage. Jimmy Carter is the type of man that would try to reason with a man to
stop raping his little sister.
His opponents love to think that Reagan worked
some kind of deal to secure the release of the hostages on his inauguration day,
but I doubt that any such conspiracy existed. I think Reagan simply made it
clear that he would do whatever it took to get them back no matter how many
Shi'ites got killed in the process. No need for conspiracy, they knew what would
happen when a man with a backbone was in power. They were about to die, and they
knew it, if they didn't return the hostages
immediately.
One of my biggest goals
when I joined the Marine Corps in 1982 (when I enrolled in NROTC) was to join an
expedition to Iran and topple their theocracy and install a government that
recognized the freedoms we take for granted. That didn't happen, to my
disappointment, but to be fair to Reagan we did have the cold war to tend to at
the time.
It should be clear to
everyone that the current war on terrorism has been made necessary by the
failure of Jimmy Carter to subjugate the Iranians when they first started to
attack us. (It was worsened by George H. W. Bush's failure to oust Saddam
Hussein from power and install a pro-freedom regime there.) Had Carter stood up
to them, and destroyed their theocracy, the other fundamentalist Islamic cults
would likely not have gained so much support. By not removing these fanatical
religious despots from power, they grew in power and exported their methods
(even to Sunni Muslims) to other Islamic states. Terrorist cells sprung up
throughout the Middle East mostly from Iranian
influence.
If Jimmy Carter had acted
after the first attacks on our embassy in Tehran, or even better if he had acted
when the Shah was ousted, to ensure that a good government were emplaced we
wouldn't have any of these troubles now. There are many even today who would
balk at "nation building" and claim that we have no business interfering in
other cultures. But the truth is that freedom is universally good. Rights are
universal and independent of culture. All men on Earth deserve the freedom to
speak without fear, the freedom to write their ideas, the freedom to believe (or
not) in whatever god they choose and worship as they see fit, the freedom to own
property and to protect it. These freedoms belong to all men. We haven't the
ability to ensure that all people have their rights recognized, but where we
have vital interests we have a moral obligation to ensure that others live in
freedom.
Had Jimmy Carter ousted
Khomeini and fostered a good government, the potential prosperity of Iran would
have been achieved. A prosperous people are a peaceful people, generally. Iran
has an educated population and plentiful resources to propel it into prosperity
if capitalism and the rule of law were established to foster
freedom.
But Jimmy is a craven coward
who whimpers in his urine-soaked slippers at the thought of doing what is right.
He is a man without a good understanding of morality. He is a man who thinks
that people who force others to worship Allah in the manner they dictate, who
subjugate their population and degrade and enslave their women, who murder and
mutilate those that resist their oppression, that these are not bad people, they
are simply people with a different
culture.
New York City and the city of
Arlington, Virginia have been raped by another Islamic theocracy, and Jimmy
Carter wants us to reason with them to stop. George Bush is going to stop the
rapist and he's going to stop the gang waiting outside to take their turn as
well. If you were the younger sister about to be raped, whom would you want for
a big brother?
Jimmy, go back to
building houses and stop spewing your immorality disguised as compassion and
enlightenment.
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