Comments on: America and its Discontents

By: legalize

legalize — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:02:58 +0000

Please don’t use the phrase “Cartesian” to refer to Carter and his views! It is such a disservice to Descarte!

By: Eric Smith

Eric Smith — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:36:58 +0000

Freedom isn’t free.
For people of his ilk, they will never understand that little fact.

Carter and Stone are two peas in a pod when it comes to slamming America.

If their way were to come to fruition, both of them would have had their heads lopped off by the Ilamofascists that they think are so great.

By: Stephen M. St. Onge

Stephen M. St. Onge — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 20:58:20 +0000

The first person to penetrate the Clintonian neuroses was the late Edith Efron, back around 1994 in REASON. It's available online here.

By: SAE

SAE — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 06:31:37 +0000

Dr. Hanson- Do you think that radical Muslims (and the American left) will protest the release of the upcoming film on Thermopylae, “300,” as being offensive or some such label, since it glorifies the West both coming to grips with a threat born from the Middle East and doing something to stop it, what with the current and impending Iranian nuclear crisis?

By: ed moore

ed moore — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:57:16 +0000

The only good thing about the mean-spirited and ignorant J Carter – he opened the door for Ronald Reagan. Thank you Dr Hanson for clear thinking and eloquently expressed common sense.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:40:08 +0000

As a missionary’s son, and having thus been raised in Third World countries, I am flabberghasted by Americans who hate the country we live in.

Some immigrants come from Third World countries to America to escape the grinding poverty that is a result, in most cases, of total mismanagement of resources and of corruption by their own leaders.

All these people want is to be free to work and prosper.

Others come to occupy our country slowly and quietly, and eventually pluck the fruit that is America right off the vine, and take it away from us.

It would be smart of us to recognize the difference between the two.

The Mexicans are the former. The Muslims in this country appear to be the latter.

It pains me to come to that conclusion. That paints all Muslims with a very broad stroke, and in a way it even shocks me to see that I now think that way.

However, I have come to that conclusion by observing the Muslims who are living in this country, as well as those who we are helping abroad- the Kurds, the Kuwaitis, the Turks.

There is not one shred of condemnation toward the murderers of innocent citizens around the world coming from anyone who matters in the Muslim community, including those who have been welcomed with open arms in this country, and live next door to us.

And those spoiled, pampered, ignorant liberals, who have never even seen the way the rest of the world lives, let alone lived with them, and don’t see the depth of blessing we are living in, curse the nation which is America, and are going to get us all killed or enslaved.

By: Mike H.

Mike H. — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 05:16:02 +0000

Amused, one good thing that Carter did was to try to buy the vote of the US military, at least the Staff NCO ranks, with a 25% pay raise in 1980. Unfortunately it didn’t stop the hemorrhaging that was occuring. I had troops that were living in condemned base housing that was outside the gate with no MP protection due to the lack of money. That money was going to social programs, that didn’t include the troops, except for food stamps. We couldn’t go to the range, no bullets, we had to wait for 6 months to get repair parts in my unit, and we weren’t the only ones.

Congress did try to stop the outflow of mid level personnel, they made an honorable discharge grounds for denial of unemployeement benefits, while a less than honorable discharge made the individual eligible for all benefits. You’ll excuse me if I don’t share the love that you have for the former president.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:22:18 +0000

As Mona Charon pointed out in “Useful Idiots”, the only war that will ever be supported by the “Media” will be those wars started by Democrats. And hopefully with an Ally like Poppa Joe.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 18:27:10 +0000

The Jimmy Carter presidency gave us today’s problems. I truly believe and history will show, that the world didn’t change on 911, it changed when Carter allowed America to be taken hostage by Iran! This weakness gave birth to attacks against us since. Carter and Clinton both thought that appeasement was the answer and both were dead wrong.

Carter and Clinton have some nerve making their insane comments now. I guess this is an attempt to change history. These useless fools just can not seem to shut up! They both were failures and both helped people that wish to kill us.

Carter: Go hammer and build houses.

Clinton: Go nail your girlfriends.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:41:46 +0000

Peanut is supposed to be the food for the brain. But I think Mr. Carter either did not eat it or eat too few of the crop.