LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.
The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies and the administration’s “quite disturbing” faith-based initiative funding.
“I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history,” Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in the newspaper’s Saturday editions. “The overt reversal of America’s basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me.”
Is there one person who looks at 22% mortgages, massive inflation, super-expensive gas, 15% unemployment, turning Iran into a dictatorship with his meddling, having hostages kept for almost a year, a member of his staff being a Libyan influence peddler and the “misery index” with fondness?
I’d have to say that the last thing Jimmy Carter should ever be proclaiming is success as a President. Nothing he did was ever successful. Hell, he tried to rescue the hostages in Iran and that ended with a helicopter crash in the desert.
There’s a reason he was a one-term President, and wild unrestrained success certainly isn’t it.
Source: Myway
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