The no-peace prizewinner. (Correction, Please!).ITEM: The Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is the name of one of five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel. , said the October 12th Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Daily newspaper published in Chicago. The Tribune is one of the leading U.S. newspapers and long has been the dominant voice of the Midwest. Founded in 1847, it was bought in 1855 by six partners, including Joseph Medill (1823–99), who made the paper , capped Jimmy Carter's "rehabilitation and vindication." The paper highlighted the Camp David accords Camp David accords, popular name for the historic peace accords forged in 1978 between Israel and Egypt at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. The official agreement was signed on Mar. 26, 1979, in Washington, D.C. , broke red by Carter, "which brought peace between Israel and Egypt." ITEM: Carter "chose to help the people of other nations learn from America's grand experiment in democracy," cheered the Orlando Sentinel The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of the Orlando, Florida region. It was founded in 1876 and is currently in its 131st year of publication. The Sentinel is owned by Tribune Company and is overseen by the Chicago Tribune. for October 15th. ITEM: The Carter Center's website at Emory University Emory University (ĕm`ərē), near Atlanta, Ga.; coeducational; United Methodist; chartered as Emory College 1836, opened 1837 at Oxford. It became Emory Univ. in 1915 and in 1919 moved to Atlanta. , on October 18th, bragged how the former president defused a 1994 crisis when "fears mounted in the United States ... that North Korea was developing a nuclear arsenal.... Following two days of talks with President Carter, President Kim [Il-Sung] agreed to freeze North Korea's nuclear program." CORRECTION: Presumably pre·sum·a·ble adj. That can be presumed or taken for granted; reasonable as a supposition: presumable causes of the disaster. the Carter Center's intent is to put the former president in the best possible light. Yet Jimmy Carter should be mortified mor·ti·fy v. mor·ti·fied, mor·ti·fy·ing, mor·ti·fies v.tr. 1. To cause to experience shame, humiliation, or wounded pride; humiliate. 2. to be connected in any way with the Clinton-era nuclear accord with North Korea, particularly considering North Korea's admission that it has clandestinely continued its nuclear weapons program. North Korea, you see, was supposed to end that program in exchange for two nuclear reactors (to be financed principally by South Korea and Japan with some help from the United States) and U.S.-supplied fuel oil. The oil shipments, the Wall Street Journal noted recently, cost American taxpayers about $100 million per year. In short, the accord with North Korea is nothing to boast about; it instead amounted to collusion and extortion. The Camp David accords are nothing to boast about either. Under those accords, Israel and Egypt receive billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid each year in exchange for not fighting with each other. True, Egypt and Israel have not gone to war since the accords went into effect. But our tax dollars have hardly bought peace in the Middle East. Nor has Carter helped "the people of other nations learn from America's grand experiment in democracy," if it is understood that "democracy" is an inappropriate word for describing our "grand experiment" in ordered liberty. In truth, Carter's fawning fawn 1 intr.v. fawned, fawn·ing, fawns 1. To exhibit affection or attempt to please, as a dog does by wagging its tail, whining, or cringing. 2. over dictatorships is widespread and well documented. He praised human rights in Communist Poland and under Yugoslavian dictator Tito, and publicly told the brutal ruler of Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu, "Our goals are the same." And his policies helped to install the Communist Sandinistas in Nicaragua and to overthrow the pro-American Shah of Iran. |
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