Major kudos to Rick Richman for his latest essay at The American Thinker, which adroitly exposes a whole new set of fabrications and misrepresentations by America's worst excuse for a president. This time, Carter was lecturing the hapless students at Oxford's Mansfield College and, if you care to click through to the text of the lecture yourself, be warned. Keep sharp objects out of reach. Rick does a masterful job of eviscerating this rubbish without appearing to lose his temper.
There are, nevertheless, a few deposits in there that Rick doesn't address, as they are a) peripheral to his main point and b) truly beggar a rational response. Here's one (the caps are in the original -- sorry).
THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAELI OCCUPYING FORCES FROM ARAB TERRITORIES WOULD DRAMATICALLY REDUCE ANY THREATS TO ISRAEL.
No doubt whatsoever. Here's another.
THE GROWTH OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND THE UNPRECEDENTED HOSTILITY TOWARD AMERICA IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THE LACK OF JUSTICE AND CONTINUING BLOODSHED IN THE HOLY LAND. TO THINK OTHERWISE IS FOOLISH AND DANGEROUS.
And Carter seems genuinely clueless as to why his book has generated so much "controversy." (Or, if you prefer, just put a period in that last sentence after "clueless.")
One trivia question for anyone out there who wants to take the time. Carter opened his talk with a witticism about the Mideast peace process that he attributed to Pope John Paul II. Most other accounts of this story (and there aren't that many) describe it as anecdotal or exaggerated at best, and it seems to me to have been a creative invention by Israeli revisionist historian Avi Shlaim. If you know of evidence to the contrary, please drop me a line.
