President Carter wanted to lift arms sales ban to RUC

@seamusmoore, no doubt!

Jimmy Carter, the worst President in my lifetime, is totally naive about foreign policy; as his total mishandling of the hostage crisis is a prime example. He was big on plans...just incapable of initiating them.

@searlit Interesting observation about the Middle East and Sadat; Do you think what happened to him is maybe a reason that there are not more "moderate" Muslims today? After all, Sadat was a moderate (after '73 anyway) and look where it got him.

The only thing I liked was the peace treaty in the middle east, but then it got Anwar Sadat killed, sadly. I never liked what Carter said about the American worker. He blamed the working people by saying that the economy was in bad shape due to them not being productive enough. That was an outrage! The failing economy, at the time, was due to an insufficient amount of capital investment into the countries own enterprise infrastructure. A failure to upgrade or re-invest in their own businesses. I did't even know that Carter was on the side of the RUC, at the time, but I didn't think he was a fair man. Ronald Reagan could have used his influence to help the Irish prisoners of war...

"Pass-the-buck Carter" would rather preach to Americans that life is inherently unfair than put any political effort into making it a little less unfair. Never have so many great opportunities been missed by anyone with so much power. He hadn't an iota of economic or political savvy, could not see through Thatcher, wouldn't listen to wiser people who tried to advise him, should never have called himself a Democrat, and tried to achieve a balance of payments by telling Americans it would be wrong to travel abroad. It's sad to realize that we have no one the likes of Tip O'Neill or Teddy Kennedy on the hill now, but at least we have some political savvy in the Oval office again.

To all my disagreeing comrades on the Reagan post ("drunk father worried"), please tell me again how Reagan was Maggie Thatcher's lapdog in light of this story. When you are elected President of the US, you are supposed to do what is best for your country first and foremost whether you are a Democrat or a Republican. Then again, Ireland is in the mess that it is because their govt cowtailed to the EU (specifically Germany and France) and adopted the Euro as their currency and surrendering their credit policy to Brussels. In retrospect, that Derry firebrand Bernadette Devlin was right when she said "I don't like masters, it doesn't matter if they are English, German or French."

I think Carter was a well intentioned moron. Other than that, he wasn't a very good President.

anglo-saxon bros sticking together - not a surprise.

dont ask what I tink, fer it would only start da troubles agin in da north of our country. shhhhhhhhhoooos