3. "Thousands of people dead..." I forgot he was going to be on, so I only caught the last minute.
But it was a good minute. When is the last we have EVER heard ANYONE on network TV make mention of the body count all that our military "interventions" leave behind?
I only wish he had expanded on those facts and gone deeper. But at least he went as far as he did -- which is farther than anyone else has gone in public.
6. Sorry, but that's not precisely true. The massacres of East Timor happened on his watch.
I don't entirely blame Carter, Kissinger was running the foreign policy show and I think Carter was in way over his head. I'm sure the pressures from the shadow government were fierce.
I'll give him props for all the ways he's tried to make things right since his presidency. And I won't forget when and where he fell short, even though I can understand how and why it happened.
8. No, not working for Carter, he set Carter up. The initial invasion of East Timor happened
under Ford, when Kissinger was Sec. of State (held over from the Nixon administration), but the arms sales to Indonesia actually increased under Carter.
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