Why Carter was a 'very good' foreign policy president - Morning Joe - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

David Rothkopf discusses his latest Daily Beast piece on why Jimmy Carter was a good foreign policy president. - Aired on 02/28/2023.

[paleotn]

1. The only American president to ever bring peace to the Middle East.

Egypt and Israel haven't been at each other's throats in 50 years. Thanks to Jimmy Carter.

[Rhiannon12866]

2. Exactly, achieving that was his dream.

And I have Carter's autobiography ("A Full Life: Reflections at 90" ) in which he describes all they went through at Camp David. It was tough to get the two leaders to talk together and at one point Sadat was ready to leave. But President Carter did everything he could to mediate and finally achieved his goal in the end.

[SheltieLover]

3. Kicking for Visibility

[EarnestPutz]

4. Republican assholes at the time denigrated his foreign policy as being too concerned.....

…..with human rights and too hard on authoritarian regimes. They wanted more “realpolitik” and actually used that term. Todays Nazis would find their complaint quaint.

[walkingman]

5. US Is The Most Warlike Nation in History of the World

The US has been at peace for only 16 of its 246 years as a nation. Counting wars, military attacks and military occupations, there have actually only been five years of peace in US history--1976, the last year of the Gerald Ford administration and 1977-80, the entirety of Carter's presidency.

If you listen carefully.....the drums of war are beating again....WHY? WHY? WHY?

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/04/18/jimmy-carter-us-most-warlike-nation-history-world

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Instead, Carter worked hard for peace. His goal was to achieve Middle East peace.