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In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:

In post-humous piece entitled ''Jimmy Carter: The False Savior'' published in ''Counterpunch'', Michael K, Smith wrote:

{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans and held them hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition innocent, outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}

{{Cquote|After the Shah was overthrown, Carter could not conceive of U.S. responsibility for the actions of enraged Iranian students who seized 66 Americans and held them hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Teheran, demanding the return of “the criminal Shah.” (He had admitted the Shah to the U.S. for emergency medical treatment for cancer, thus precipitating the “hostage crisis.”) To Carter, Americans were by definition innocent, outside [[history]], and he dismissed Iranian grievances against the U.S. as ancient history, refusing to discuss them. In his distorted mind, Iranians were [[terrorist]]s by nature, and Iran had always been a potentially terrorist nation, regardless of what they had suffered at U.S. hands. In short, without the Shah, Carter regarded Iran as a land of swarthy and crazed [[medieval]]ists, what [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] today calls a “rogue state.”<ref>[https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/12/30/jimmy-carter-the-false-savoir/ Jimmy Carter: the False Savoir, Michael K. Smith, December 30, 2024. www.counterpunch.org</ref>}}

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{{Cquote|He was a terrible President. That’s why he lost in a landslide after his one term. If it’s possible, I think he was even a worse ex-president because of his meddling in [[US foreign policy]], because of his saddling up to [[dictator]]s around the world, because of his vehement views, anti-Israel views, and more than dabbling in [[anti-Semitism]] over the years. He often vexed Democrats. [[Obama]] didn't even have him speak at his '08 Convention.

 

He put [[Bill Clinton]] in a terrible [[foreign policy]] box on a [[North Korea]] nuclear issue. I think he was a guy who had a huge [[ego]] and believed that he was uniquely positioned to do all these things, even after the American people had roundly and soundly rejected his leadership. I respect people who run for [[President]] and get elected President, but in his particular case, I think he, time and again, proved why he was never suited for the office in the first place.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/scott-jennings-unloads-jimmy-carter-cnn-panel-gets/</ref>}}

==Basic further reading==

==Basic further reading==