Jimmy Carter Was Actually a Very Good Foreign Policy President

[winetourdriver01]

As former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has entered hospice care and begun the final phase of his long, remarkable life, we should stop not only to appreciate his outsized contributions to our society but also to reflect on some of the lessons of his political life. And doing so might help correct a longstanding wrong—which is that Carter’s presidency was treated with terrible unfairness by pundits and conventional wisdom.
What is more, the under-appreciation of Jimmy Carter when he was president offers important insights into our own political moment and how we have gotten here. Since Carter left office in 1980, the too-easy, misleading, canned analysis of his life was that he was a mediocre president who became an exceptional ex-president, leading for decades by virtue of his service and lived values. It is commonplace to suggest that his presidency was a footnote to history, one perhaps most notable because it ushered in the “greatness” of the Reagan Era.

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[SalamanderSleeps]

1. President Carter was pounded on by all 3 Broadcast networks from the very start.

They had it in for him. "How dare he tell people to live more economically!" He was bad for business.

"Presidents don't tell people what to do. The media tells people what to do!"

But, they loved them some Reagan.

Reagan was the stooge that Big Money, Big Oil, and Big Business wanted.

Every night for 444 days, "Where are the hostages? Where are the hostages? Where are the hostages?"

The fucking clowns at NBC, CBS, and ABC tortured the whole country with that shit, when anybody with decent brain could figure out

that fuck all could be done to solve the issue.

And, don't ever forget that Ronald Reagan arranged to keep the hostages in harms way until after the election.

The difference in between Jimmy Carter and Republican's is that President Carter had integrity and they never will.

[GPV]

2. +1

[lees1975]

3. Carter was a very good president all the way around.

Much better than his predecessor, the guy who let Nixon off the hook, or his successor, who was truly an actor in movies and in the presidency.

[andym]

4. Carter was just one sandstorm from being one of the greatest Presidents ever

Operation Eagle Claw was terminated because it was one helicopter short of what the Pentagon thought necessary to rescue the hostages in Iran in Spring 1980. Had it succeeded Carter would have been feted and surely beaten Ronnie Reagan.
In 1983 when inflation was tamed and the economy began to grow, the so-called Reagan economic miracle would have been known as the Carter economic miracle, which perhaps it should anyways as it was due to the Fed's actions under inflation hawk Paul Volcker who was appointed by Carter knowing it would cost him politically in the short term.