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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>}}
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>}}
[[Radical]] [[leftist]] Chris Hedges in piece entitled ''Don't deify Jimmy Carter'' wrote,
{{Cquote|Carter is the godfather of the pillage known as [[neoliberalism]], a pillage fellow Democrat [[Bill Clinton]] would turbo charge.
Carter fell under the disastrous influence of his Svengali-like national security adviser [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], a [[Polish]] exile, who rejected the [[Nixon]]-[[Kissinger]] reliance on ''[[détente]]'' with the [[Soviet Union]]. Brzezinski's life’s mission, one that meant he saw the world in black and white, was to confront and destroy the [[Soviet Union]] along with any [[government]] or movement he deemed to be under [[communist]] influence or sympathetic to it.
Carter, under Brzezinski’s influence, walked away from the [[SALT II|Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty]] (SALT II) with the Soviet Union, which sought to curb [[nuclear weapon]]s deployment. He increased [[military]] spending. He sent military aid to the [[Indonesia]]n New Order government during the Indonesian invasion and occupation of [[East Timor]], which many have characterized as a [[genocide]]. He supported, along with the [[apartheid]] state of [[South Africa]], the murderous counter revolutionary group, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), led by Jonas Savimbi. He provided aid to the brutal [[Zaire|Zairian]] dictator Mobutu Sese Seko. He supported the [[Khmer Rouge]].<ref>https://scheerpost.com/2024/12/30/chris-hedges-dont-deify-jimmy-carter/</ref>}}
==Basic further reading==
==Basic further reading==