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I always suspected the former President was pro-genocide.

Why on earth would he believe he has any expertise on anything to do with the Mideast? Jimmy Carter just doesn’t know when to stop! What a doofus…

For those who actually care about this (ie, you’re interested in more than trasying a liberal for an out-of-context quote), here is the reasoning employed by the UN in determining that the Darfur conflict should not be classified as a “genocide”:

However, the crucial element of genocidal intent appears to be missing, at least as far as the central Government authorities are concerned. Generally speaking the policy of attacking, killing and forcibly displacing members of some tribes does not evince a specific intent to annihilate, in whole or in part, a group distinguished on racial, ethnic, national or religious grounds. Rather, it would seem that those who planned and organized attacks on villages pursued the intent to drive the victims from their homes, primarily for purposes of counter-insurgency warfare.

http://www.un.org/News/dh/sudan/com_inq_darfur.pdf

Dave, the Janjaweed are not the government, and therefore cannot be engaged in any sort of counter-insurgency.  They qualify rather as a genocidal insurgency, and have for centuries.  A 1927 or so National Geographic article notes that they’ve been preying on their neighbors for a long, long time, and the British temporarily put a stop to it.

Carter is a truly detestable creature. His failed presidency and his own incompetence have left him bitter to the point of treason.

The future ain’t what it used to be…..

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Dave, to say that the Janjaweed kill only to take someone’s land, instead of intending to kill them to wipe out an ethnic group, is a distinction without a difference.

Mass murder at the behest of a government against an ethnic minority is genocide no matter how you cut it.

Jimmy never let details get in the way of a good photo op.

Why is anyone surprised at this? Carter is violently opposed to anything that flies in the face of his anti-American, Benetton ad demagoguery and tends to highlight the superiority of Western democratic civilization.

4 and one half years????
I heard about this problem on shortwave radio in 1993
closer to 14 and one half years, when they were begging for anyone to help stop the slaughter.
I wonder what happened to those people?

How much longer is President Carter going to continue his increasingly bizarre, senile commentaries?  Let us not forget that this is the same, former President Carter, of the signature idiot grin, who in four short years mortgaged the United States Economy to Saudi Arabia for eternity, appeased the Iranian Theocracy, botched the rescue of American hostages in Tehran, and authorized the sale of weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein.  And that was before his senility kicked in.  Yes, his work for Habitat For Humanity is utterly laudable.  But when it comes to world affairs and humanitarian matters, Carter has long since lost any and all credibility.  Jimmy Carter’s moral posturing is nothing more than a colossal ego gone mad, even if it is hidden behind a highly suspect “Christian” exterior.  President Carter’s meddling in international humanitarian affairs, however much it may come from the heart, is not only ignorant and insane but highly dangerous.  However noble his intentions, Carter is a very dangerous person.  The old idiot really needs to keep his huge mouth firmly shut before he does any more irreversible harm to both God and Man.

Yes, Carter is wrong but let’s not talk of tyranical and genocide. Yes, what is happening is Darfur is terrible, but they are replicating what US government of yester years and today have done and are still doing.
How about the genocide in Iraq? How about the genocide in Haiti? How about the genocide in Palestine? How about the genocide in El Salvador?
It will not happen in Darfur if the United States has not been an example for so many decades. Take the log out of USA before looking for dust in Sudan.

Theo your views are so bankrupt I debated whether or not to even debunk them.

This is no genocide in Iraq, unless you mean the 300,000 people Saddam Hussein killed there and buried in trench graves. The Lancet study that claimed 650,000 dead is just laughably wrong and widely discredited.

There is no genocide in Haiti or Palestine and you know it. As for El Salvador, the blame rests on the soviet stooges there that wanted to replicate the Stalinist state of Cuba.

The most bankrupt part of your faulty analysis is the belief that, somehow, because the US committed crimes in the past . . . the means we should do nothing now. 

There is absolutely no logic or reason in that.

The point is really clear and simple, isn’t it? Just because the USA did something wrong in the past, that does not preclude taking right action now. 

The mass murder in Darfur is indefensible and we need to step in.  There is no value in comparing it to anything that the USA has or has not done in the past. 

Once again, President Carter and his deluded acolytes are muddying the water with their pseudo-liberalism and pseudo-humanitarianism. 

The civilized world needs to intervene and protect the innocent, period.  Just casting blame back and forth resolves nothing. 

History is a strange beast.  300,000 Americans died in action in WW2 - a drop in the ocean compared to the British or the French, let alone the soldiers of the former Soviet Union.

But the heroism of a comparative handful of American military in WW2 is not lessened by the fact that WW2 would have never happened in the first place without massive American investment in Nazi Germany from 1932 to 1942. 

America, like many other major world powers past and present, has always speculated economically and often capitalized on the most hideous atrocities - and genocides - around the world.  That does not change the moral imperative of intervening whenever and wherever we can now, to protect the innocent. 

Two wrongs do not make a right.  There is, however, a deep and hideous irony that President Carter repeatedly blames the current administration for military actions that are a direct result of the appallingly misguided and catastrophic foreign policy of the United States when Carter himself was in office. 

Just because President George Bush Sr. financed and supported Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, does that mean President George Bush Jr. should do nothing to defend his country against his father’s former friends?  Of course not!

Jimmy Carter and his kind have done enough harm to the world already!  Don’t blame others for what you did, Mr. Carter!  President Carter really needs to go sit in a great big tent somewhere far away with Gadaffi and Saddam and all his other cronies, and keep his nose out of serious matters from now on. Better late than never!