Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States and member of the Democratic Party, passed away yesterday at the age of 100.
As expected, a process of "beatification" of Carter has been launched by various voices. An example is the message from the Spanish socialist Pedro Sánchez about him: "Jimmy Carter has been one of the leaders most committed to justice and human rights and will always be remembered for his defense of democracies and his dedication to Peace." Another crude lie from a compulsive liar like Sánchez, although it is an understandable lie considering his common denominator with Carter: Sánchez maintains a friendly relationship with all kinds of dictators.
I don't like speaking ill of a dead person, but I like even less the fact that people lie to whitewash the bad actions of one of the most hated presidents of the United States in the last century, and not only for what Carter did during his term, but also for what he did afterwards.
Upon arriving at the White House in 1977, Carter approved his then-secret Presidential Directive NSC-6 for a "normalization" of US relations with Cuba. Carter's policy of appeasement with communist dictatorships had a disastrous outcome, just as the British and French appeasement policy with Hitler had in 1938: during Carter's term in office, the USSR and Cuba supported related coups in Ethiopia, South Yemen and Afghanistan, without any US reaction.
In 1979, two years after arriving at the White House, Carter did the Chinese communist dictatorship a great favor by withdrawing the US regiment to Taiwan. Theoretically, he sought to distance Beijing from the USSR's sphere of influence, but what he achieved was to increase the influence of that dictatorship in the world, without obtaining in return a single advance in terms of human rights.
That same year, Carter supported the rise to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, which was the beginning of an Islamic dictatorship that has been in power for 45 years, violating human rights and promoting terrorism on an international scale. Khomeini thanked him by storming the US Embassy in Tehran and kidnapping 66 US diplomats and citizens for 444 days, a kidnapping that ended up causing Carter to lose his re-election.
The 39th US president's attitude toward communist dictatorships went beyond mere appeasement. Carter openly favored and praised several dictators, even the most brutal ones, during and after his term in office:
The 39th US president's favors were not limited to dictators. Defying the Obama administration, in April 2008 Carter met with the top brass of the Hamas terrorist organization and even hugged one of its leaders, Nasser al-Shaer. "He gave me a hug. We hugged each other and it was a warm welcome," the terrorist leader told the Associated Press. Following that visit, in June 2009 Carter called on Obama to remove Hamas from the US list of terrorist groups, a move the then US president rejected.
In recent hours, through social media, many US citizens have remembered Carter as one of the worst presidents of that country in its 248-year history. A president who marked his public career with favors to dictators and terrorists like those I have just mentioned. I hope that his last years were dedicated to meditating on his bad actions and the great damage they caused.
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Photo: Archivo Bettmann.
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