Carter Country
April 18, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Jimmy Carter gets this severe slapping from the Washington Post editoral page:
Mr. Carter justifies his meetings with familiar arguments about the value of dialogue with enemies. But he misses the point. Contacts between enemies can be useful: Israel is legendary for such negotiations, and even now it is engaged in back-channel bargaining with Hamas through Egypt. But it is one thing to communicate pragmatically, and quite another to publicly and unconditionally grant recognition and political sanction to a leader or a group that advocates terrorism, mass murder or the extinction of another state. That is what Mr. Carter is doing by lending what is left of his prestige to an avowed terrorist such as Khaled Meshal — or Mahmoud al-Zahar.
Tough words. Richly deserved.
Which makes this the perfect time to show the most popular Dry Bones cartoon ever published. It appeared in the Jerusalem Post in 1977 but equally relevant 31 years later (the teacher in the cartoon is Israel’s then-prime minister Menachem Begin. And no explanation needed for whom “Carter” refers to):
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