Speaking as someone who definitely knows a thing or two about "screwing things up", especially in this same region of the world, ex-president Jimmy Carter is better qualified than most when it comes to criticizing Barry’s rather inept execution of some semblance of a rational Middle East policy. Carter said that Barry has continued to shift policies and ultimately waited too long to take action against the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIS). That would also be the same group that Barry has declared has absolutely nothing to do with the violent cult of Islam.
In an interview published just yesterday in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Carter said Barry’s administration, by not acting sooner, allowed ISIS to build up its strength. He said, "[W]e waited too long. We let the Islamic State build up its money, capability and strength and weapons while it was still in Syria." He went on to say, "Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned." It’s pretty bad when you’ve got someone like Carter criticizing you.
The administration has launched airstrikes in both Iraq and Syria, which some have call "pin pricks" designed neither to kill terrorists nor to inflict all that much damage. Meanwhile ISIS has swept across much of northern and central Iraq and has released videos of its members beheading two U.S. journalists and two British aid workers, so far. Carter said Barry’s air campaign against ISIS in Iraq has "a possibility of success," provided that some troops are available on the ground. He did not specify whether he meant U.S. or other ground forces.
The Democrat ex-president also accused Barry of shifting his Middle East policy on several occasions. It was in describing Barry’s Middle East strategy, or lack thereof, that Cater said, "It changes from time to time." Carter went on to say, "I noticed that two of his secretaries of defense, after they got out of office, were very critical of the lack of positive action on the part of the president." But let’s face it, if either of these guys had had serious concerns regarding what Barry doing, or not doing, they should have acted while still able to do something about it.
Carter was making a reference to former defense secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta who, in preferring book sales over taking action to protect the country, have each now released a memoir detailing frustrations with Barry’s foreign policy and management style. In particular, Panetta, who stepped down just last year, has criticized Barry in several interviews since the release of his book earlier this week. But I think Panetta’s motive is very clear, as a close friend of Hitlery, he’s doing his best to grease the skids regarding her possible White House run.
Typically, former presidents are often seen as being reluctant to criticize one another, as well as the sitting president out of respect for the difficulty and pressures of the job, unless, of course, you happen to be a scumbag Democrat ex-president like a Carter or ‘Slick Willie’. Former Republican President George W. Bush has repeatedly declined to disparage his successor. But neither Carter, nor old ‘Slick’, has ever demonstrated such a level class, and has shown on any number of occasions not to be the least bit hesitant when it comes to criticizing other presidents.
Carter, I think it fair to say, is someone of whom it can be said struck the match that ignited what would become the Muslim scourge that we are forced to contend with today. It was on Carter’s watch that the Shah of Iran, up until that time considered to be a staunch ally of the United States since 1953, was essentially nudged out in 1979. And it was, like Barry, Carter’s inept approach to foreign policy that made it possible for the Ayatollah Khomeni to return to Iran on February 1, 1979, and serve as being the first contact between the United States and the cult of radical Islam.
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