Harry’s Place has found an interesting passage from Jimmy Carter’s speech to the Democratic Conference:
We’ve had such a confused foreign policy with demands on other nations. We’ve alienated almost everyone who offered their support after 9/11, and now we have just a handful of little tiny countries supposedly helping us in Iraq.
Aside from the obvious factual inaccuracy which Harry points out “There are actually over 30 countries “supposedly” helping the US in Iraq. Little places like Australia, Italy, Poland….” there is also what Harry calls a ‘snubbing’.
I am less forgiving.
That was an grievous insult upon the nations to which I pledge my allegiance.
Carter Implies not only that we are subordinate, insignificant and “little tiny countries” but far worse, that by simple application of logic France, Germany and Russian are far more important than those countries who stood by America in her time of need.
Our contribution of money, of sweat, of blood and of the lives of our sons and daughters to the coalition is but a speck against the heaving significance of the Franco-Prussian political juggernaut.
I am sickened.
He has just managed to insult some of the greatest nations on Earth and more importantly America’s staunchest allies who have time and again galvanized the bonds of our fellowship in the spilled blood of our people. Irrespective of the glowing report he has been given by many (my good friends inclusive) I have no respect for him in light of those callous, repugnant words.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 28, 2004 11:51 PM | TrackBack