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Chris Hedges - Don't deify Jimmy Carter

Posted by John Monro <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=John+Monro' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 2, 2025, 7:27 pm

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/dont-deify-jimmy-carter-read-by-eunice?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=778851&post_id=153975442&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127bn5&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

President Carter's four years really were no different from any other President's and the list of his misbehaviours abroad and at home is long. It seems likely his more humane latter years might have been a form of atonement.

Re: Chris Hedges - Don't deify Jimmy Carter

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 2, 2025, 11:47 pm, in reply to "Chris Hedges - Don't deify Jimmy Carter"

Yes, Absolutely ..

It seems likely his more humane latter years might have been a form of atonement.

Kudos for his book on Palestine.

Otherwise there was zero change in the US policy during his time or the time after. Doesn't bode well for the future. The Deep State doesn't learn and there is no reverse gear.

Re: Chris Hedges - Don't deify Jimmy Carter

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on January 3, 2025, 6:01 am, in reply to "Chris Hedges - Don't deify Jimmy Carter"

An excellent piece covering what's mostly missing from the corporate media obits. Thanks for posting it.

I agree with the idea that his stance on the apartheid state (at that time very outstpoken not least for someone of his stature) was some attempt at atonement. But, and this is where I find people who find it inconvenient raise their eyebrows and sigh when you tell them, he would be up on the gallows with the all the postwar US presidents as war criminals following the Nuremberg standards.

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

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