Carter: Revolutionary War Unnecessary

For months I've argued that a President Kerry would be less like JFK and more like Jimmy. Yet some still--including John Kerry himself in the NY Times--argue that returning to Carter would be better than Bush.

This is nuts. Carter was pacifist President. In avoiding war at any costs, he encouraged (and was befuddled by) overrunning the U.S. embassy in Iran, then holding American personnel hostage for a year and a half. Both during and after his term, his inflexible opposition to war made Carter an appeaser extraordinaire, who never met a dictator he didn't like. The result was to sanction authoritarian brutality, and undermine American power, throughout the world.

How do we know? Why Jimmy himself. He's proud of his philosophy, as he admitted appearing on 'Hardball with Chris Matthews' last night:

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about--this is going to cause some trouble with people--but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?

CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonial's really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

Yes, you heard that right--Jimmy regrets the Revolutionary War. Were Carter a founding father, America might never have been born.

And under a President Kerry, America could easily die.