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From the Right by Ed Farnan

Will Barack Obama have a Jimmy Carter moment?

Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 05:57 PM

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Events are moving quickly in the middle east and it should be apparent to everyone that it is time for strong leadership from the President of the United States. This could mean showing outward and material support for the present government, at least until there can be a peaceful transfer of power to another democratic form of government. But to do nothing would be a mistake.

It has been reported that the Muslim Brotherhood is behind the rioting in the streets of Egypt, their aim is to topple the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic form of government. Already Tunisia has toppled, Yemen is teetering and Jordan is getting restive. The Mideast is a powder keg ready to explode.

The comparison is similar to events back in 1979, when inaction by Jimmy Carter opened the door for Ayatollah Khomeini to come into Iran and turn it into an Islamic terrorist state. Iran has been spreading mischief and mayhem throughout the world and is on the precipice of getting nuclear weapons. We are still paying for Carters foreign policy weakness in the face of earthshaking events.

They say a smart man learns from his mistakes, but a brilliant man learns from other peoples mistakes. Obama has the opportunity to be a smart man as well as a brilliant man and salvage this situation. Help the Egyptian people to help themselves. Don’t let this anarchy create another fundamentalist oppressive state.

The real way to defuse the potency of the middle east is to stop being addicted to their oil. Mr. Obama, take the chains off of our energy industry and let us become independent by using our own energy resources. We have enough coal, oil, natural gas & hydroelectric for all of our energy needs far into the future, our technology will make them clean. Enough with the windmills, they will never generate enough power to help us. Remember this truth: You can make windmills with steel but you can’t make steel with windmills. PS. How deep is that global warming out there in the east?

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maloney | Feb 03, 2011, 12:23 PM EST

I don't understand why you think me a racist, seano. Hell I like muslims, I think everybody should own 4 or 5 of em.

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seanomelbourne | Feb 02, 2011, 11:25 PM EST

You poor man Maloney twisting and turning the truth to mold it to your ethnically racist view.

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Monsoonman | Feb 02, 2011, 09:36 PM EST

Well said Maloney...Not a peep out of the muslim whitehouse when the Iranian people called for help. The little noticed strong armed robbery of Lebanons govt. by radical islamists gets no mention...It's a shame.

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maloney | Feb 02, 2011, 09:33 PM EST

Lebanon govt. falls, hamas takes over, obama doesn't say a word. Iran's people in the streets being killed by radical islamic govt. obama doesn't say a word. Egypt's people want to remove president friendly to America, obama tells him to take a hike. Obama will own the radical muslim islamic takeover of the middle east, ending up who knows where. All of them want Israel wiped off the face of the earth. The UN is a sham & the USA should leave & defund the UN. At the current rate Islam may take over the world but for one thing, America's Second Amendment.

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seanomelbourne | Feb 02, 2011, 04:42 PM EST

Every country in the U.N. recognizes the 1967 borders and the Palestinians including HAMAS. Arafat had a handshake deal (in Washington)with the Israeli P.M. on these terms, when he returned to Israel he reneged on the deal.

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maloney | Feb 01, 2011, 10:08 PM EST

The only state not talking peace is Israel! Seano, you should have told us long ago that you were in a parallel universe.

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Monsoonman | Feb 01, 2011, 09:27 PM EST

Lad: I don't understand. The scenario was if Israel withdrew to its pre 1967 borders? What other issues/grievances do the pals have after that? Fried or extra crispy?

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seanomelbourne | Feb 01, 2011, 07:32 PM EST

The only state not talking peace is Israel and would be forced to change its stance if the U.S. Israeli lobby did not interfere.

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Monsoonman | Feb 01, 2011, 06:30 PM EST

It was an excerpt from a newspaper article Lad, just reporting the facts. Do you think it would satisfy Israels neighbors, if its borders were 1967 size? Do you think they would let Israel live in peace?

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seanomelbourne | Feb 01, 2011, 06:03 PM EST

"the lone voice of sanity in the middle east"give me a break Mman.Obama went to Egypt last year and talked about democracy and now the people have responded. Visited Egypt (05)and found a repressive poverty ridden state with armored cars hidden in laneways near all major intersections and hotels.And as I've stated before the U.S. Will back any despot if it's in American interest.If this wave of democracy continues you will see a new order and Israel will have to concede to the 1967 borders.

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Monsoonman | Feb 01, 2011, 12:33 PM EST

Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton: Is a "bullet in the back" the same thing as being "thrown under the bus"? From an Israeli newspaper: by Aviad Pohoryles in the daily Maariv entitled "A Bullet in the Back from Uncle Sam." It accused Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton of pursuing a naive, smug, and insular diplomacy heedless of the risks. Who is advising them, he asked, "to fuel the mob raging in the streets of Egypt and to demand the head of the person who five minutes ago was the bold ally of the president ... an almost lone voice of sanity in a Middle East?"

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Edinboron | Jan 31, 2011, 03:46 PM EST

Isn't this what Bush promised? Regime change and "democracy" in Iraq would create a domino effect throughout the Middle East. When it's Bush created chaos you are all for it. Now you are trying to blame Obama for what is gong on in Egypt! Carter refused to negotiate with terrorists. Behind his back Reagan and Bush were negotiating and making secret deals with the hostage takers in Iran and supporting the right wing death squads who were killing priests and nuns in Nicaragua and El Salvador.

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chesapeake | Jan 31, 2011, 11:49 AM EST

He has been having Jimmy Carter moments for two years; and, so far, Jimmy has pulled ahead... something I thought could not happen. Susanna should stay off of the sauce - the pickling effect has obviously set in.

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McNabb1966 | Jan 31, 2011, 11:15 AM EST

Whatever credibility susanna may have had just evaporated with her spirited but doomed attempt to rehabilitate one of the truly pathetic presidents of modern times. Unless weakness and malaise are benchmarks for greatness than it's hard to take such nonsense seriously.

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susanna | Jan 31, 2011, 11:08 AM EST

Since Jimmy Carter was a GREAT President, we can only hope Obama has a JC moment! What America doesn't want are any Ronald Reagan(gads,his own son now says he had Alzheimers while he was in office) or George W Bush moments ("Mission Accomplished" - historians have already stated he will go down as the worst President in the history of the U.S.). Jimmy Carter was the greatest environmental Presidentthis country has ever had. He was the first to have solar panels in the White House and baffoon Reagan removed them. Not one drop of blood was shed in war when Carter was President. He promoted a visionary energy policy. He countered the Soviet military threat. And since he left office, he has persistently promoted the cause of peace around the world (can you say Nobel Peace Prize?). The landmark Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty he fashioned remains in force today. If it wasn't for a hostile press, a debate gaffe, a botched rescue mission in Iran, and illegal and traitorous secret negotiations by the Reagan election team with Iran - an over-rated B actor President (Reagan) who now had been exposed as having Alzheimers while in office, would never have been elected. I sure hope Obama is as good as Carter!

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