Why is This Man Still Talking?

Is there no one who can stop Jimmy Carter from opening his yap in public? Surely there must be some trusted loved one, a beloved associate, or caped superhero capable of reigning in the ex-President’s leviathan ego.

I say that because I prefer to think that ego is the reason Carter penned this op-ed lecturing President Bush on brokering a nuclear deal with India. Ego would be a far better reason than, say, sheer stupidity or purposeful ignorance. Ego would explain better why the man who brokered a nuclear deal with North Korea that allowed them to get the nuclear weapons they have right now and threatened to use against us would write such a haughty, hectoring piece of tripe.

Okay, so he’s an egomaniac. He’s also dead wrong on a couple important points and those are far more important to understand than why Carter’s ego has gotten so large that it’s visible from space.

Here’s where Carter first misleads:

The only substantive commitment among nuclear-weapon states and others is the 1970 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), accepted by the five original nuclear powers and 182 other nations. Its key objective is “to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology . . . and to further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament.” At the five-year U.N. review conference in 2005, only Israel, North Korea, India and Pakistan were not participating — three with proven arsenals.

We can’t delude ourselves into thinking that the NPT has actually prevented nations intent on becoming nuclear powers from getting exactly what they wanted. It surely didn’t stop a plethora of nations from beginning their own nuclear programes and, in some cases, from developing their own weapons. It has done little to stop maniacs like Muammar Qadaffi, Kim Jong-Il, and Muhammad Ahmenijad from pursuing their own nuclear interests. It did nothing whatsoever to prevent nations like Russia and China from exporting weapons technology to complement the nuclear programes of North Korea, Pakistan, Iran, and Libya.

It is a piece of paper held up by Carter like a talisman against the nuclear boogiemonsters that – and here’s the part that kills folks like him – has no power at all without the United States and our allies to vigorously enforce it. Even then, the power of the treaty is dependent on a lot of factors that no one can control and only the foolish or gullible would trust – the chief one being the trustworthiness of despots.

Unfortunately, that’s precisely the sort of trust Carter and his bestest multi-culti cultist buddies want us to extend. It’s tough to do that in the face of statements like this:

It must be remembered that there are no detectable efforts being made to seek confirmed reductions of almost 30,000 nuclear weapons worldwide, of which the United States possesses about 12,000, Russia 16,000, China 400, France 350, Israel 200, Britain 185, India and Pakistan 40 each — and North Korea has sufficient enriched nuclear fuel for a half-dozen.

No detectable efforts? None? Not, even, say the Strategic Offensive Reduction Treaty agreed to in 2003?

Huh. That sure looks like a detectable effort to me. At least I’d hope that I could detect the difference between 16,000 warheads and 2,200 or so. I’d hope that Carter could also. Luckily he can count to six – the number of warheads developed by North Korea after they snookered him into believing that they wouldn’t develop them and sealed it with a double-secret pinky-shake.

Gullible old buffoon. And now here he is telling us just how foolish the President is for brokering a deal to let India have, in an ordered and verifiable way, the very thing that Russia had already agreed to give them four months ago.

That really is the most amazing part of Carter’s op-ed. Not only does he not note that India and Russia had already inked a deal to give then nuclear fuel, it doesn’t even seem to be a part of his thought process here. He writes as if India had no other way of getting nuclear fuel except through us and that we were solely capable of stopping them if they did. He’s developed an almost insanity-making contradiction that say that we ought to be shamed for unilaterally negotiating with India yet that we are unilaterally responsible for making sure that India complies with the NPT.

Then again, what else could you expect of someone who favorably quotes such a smashing foreign-police success story as former SecDef Robert McNamara?

Here is the situation in a nutshell. India is pursuing a more robust nuclear program whether we like it or not. We happen to have very good relations with India right now and are in a position to help them do what they want safely, wisely, and efficiently. Such a thing would make us even closer allies with an India that is rapidly becoming a world power in its own right and sits on a continent that also contains the increasingly-belligerent China and Russia.

Carter would have us relegate India to second-tier status and stand firm against a friend for no particularly good reason except to prop up his prized piece of paper.

That’s foolish behavior and I’m glad that President Bush is not inclined to listen to a man who wouldn’t know a wise foreign policy if it walked up behind him and bit him right on his overinflated ego.

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