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| | It was worse in foreign affairs. Carter did broker a temporary peace in the Middle East, but was forced to abandon détente when the Russians began to exploit American weaknesses around the globe. Carter was forced to restart the [[Cold War]] when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, but his belated actions validated the complaints of conservatives that he offered too little too late. Meanwhile the nation was humiliated in [[Iran]], where militants held American diplomats captive for 444 days, while Carter proved helpless. | | It was worse in foreign affairs. Carter did broker a temporary peace in the Middle East, but was forced to abandon détente when the Russians began to exploit American weaknesses around the globe. Carter was forced to restart the [[Cold War]] when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, but his belated actions validated the complaints of conservatives that he offered too little too late. Meanwhile the nation was humiliated in [[Iran]], where militants held American diplomats captive for 444 days, while Carter proved helpless. |
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| − | Jimmy Carter has been charged in actively aiding the genocide in [[East Timor]].<ref>"Jimmy Carter's Genocide: Explaining the Human Rights Conundrum of East Timor." Spring - 2009, University of California Berkeley. [http://history.berkeley.edu/content/jimmy-carters-genocide-explaining-human-rights-conundrum-east-timor]</ref>
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| − | By the time Xanana Gusmao clearly took over the leadership of the Resistance, in March 1981, more than another 100,000 had been killed by assassination, sickness and starvation in a situation worse than that of Biafra, whilst the world did almost nothing.
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| − | In 1977, the peace-loving USA President Jimmy Carter had authorised the supply of Bronco OV-10F ground attack aircraft.<ref>Jim Aubrey: "Free East Timor: Australia's culpability in East Timor's genocide." (Random House Australia, 1998), p.94 [http://books.google.com/books?id=wnSGAAAAMAAJ&q;=jimmy+Carter#search_anchor]</ref></blockquote>
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| − | They have had profoundly detrimental implications for the people of Aceh, West Papua and others fighting for independence or autonomy. In a global context, Nevins asserts they provide yet another set of the double standards of people ...
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| − | Armed, equipped and supported by the TNI. Guterres and his thugs killed and raped indiscriminately. ... the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 despite having provided the TNI with weaponry with which to kill tens of thousands of East Timorese.<ref>Australian book review, Issues 276-281, National Book Council, Australia, P. Isaacson Publications., 2005 - Literary Criticism, p.54 [http://books.google.com/books?id=lhzhAAAAMAAJ&q;=%22Nobel+peace+prize%22#search_anchor]</ref></blockquote>
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| − | Carter has been also harshly criticized for supporting genocidal Pol Pot, in [[Cambodia]].
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| − | It was called the Carter Doctrine.<ref>Webster Griffin Tarpley: "Obama: the postmodern coup: making of a Manchurian candidate." (2008) p.104
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| − | Author:<blockquote>And it was President Carter, the human rights advocate, who in 1979 gave the green light to support the genocidal credentials of the Pol Pot regime at the UN General Assembly.
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| − | The genocidal butcher<ref>Thabo Kunene: "Genocide Victims Want Mugabe Punished - Global Policy." Zimbabwe Standard, January 6, 2002 [http://www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/163/28205.html]</ref> Robert Mugabe’s rise is closely linked to Carter. As a writer wrote: "How Tyranny Came to Zimbabwe: Jimmy Carter still has a lot to answer for - Young and Carter helped deliver Rhodesia to the genocidal dictator Mugabe."<ref>"The Cold War ." Mark Humphreys. [http://markhumphrys.com/cold.war.html]</ref> Carter’s Role in Zimbabwe is great. <i>Mr. Mugabe is one of the nastiest dictators in Africa — he has inflicted a “silent genocide."</i><ref>"Carter’s Role in Zimbabwe." The New York Sun, 11 Jul 2007. [http://www.nysun.com/opinion/carters-role-in-zimbabwe/58232/]</ref>
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| − | 3) Jimmy Carter as in helping install Robert Mugabe, the racist genocidal tyrant, in Zimbabwe.
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| − | 6) Jimmy Carter as helping to rid the Shah, knowing full well the dark cloud - Islamofascistic Revolution looming from "prophet" of Jihad, the Ayatollah, that changed for the worse: Iran; Lebanon; much of Arab "Palestine;" as well as other hot spots in the world.
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