Remember Stalin's description of "useful idiots" ? He would have loved Jimmy Carter.
He had the same kind of constructive dialogue with the Soviet Union which made him feel very good about himself - and then was shocked when almost immediately afterward they rolled into Afghanistan.
>Then Hamas state television have quiet low criteria for airing.
>Video is obviosely low end junk production, and could hv been done by anybody who hate Israel. How it ended up on Hamas TV is another story.
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>However, I believe that demonising each other does not serve any purpose
>on the short or long run. It aint gonna stiff that trigger-finger to those Israeli sniper squads, nor will make make number of rockets falling on Siderot and elsewhere any less.
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>To CharlesH;
>Making fun of Carter for acting in a good feith simply escapes me.
>He is about only drop of wisdom and good-will in whole ocean of maddness,
>hatred and bad blood. What should he do deserve some of your respect ?!? Looby in Washington to nuke Gaza ??
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
