Comments on: jimmy carter was right

By: matt mc

matt mc — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 21:40:04 +0000

it is unfortunate that klare chooses to not take into account the fact that making america energy independent was carter’s number one priority. if carter’s energy plan had gone into effect and further developed after he left office, then america would not be dependent on foreign oil today, making the concept of an “international oil police” a mute point.
the carter doctrine was indeed some very aggressive posturing, but had the soviets invaded saudi arabia it probably would have been the start of world war three. that never happened, so maybe carter’s hard-line stance paid off.
what is truly tragic is that the carter doctrine, and not the carter energy plan, is what the following administrations choose to keep. carter was a humanist, and probably a pacifist. crazy shit was going on during the cold war, but i am sure he never intended to use the us military as an oil police.

By: morgan

morgan — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 17:46:32 +0000

who has made a good documentary on carter? also, just to throw some complexity in here, did you know that the carter doctrine is another iteration of the claim that america would use military force if anyone tried to invade saudi arabia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine michael klare makes the argument that this doctrine, along with truman's, started us on the path of using our military as an international oil police.

By: adam Forkner

adam Forkner — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 20:31:28 +0000

say word, dogg.

By: matt mc

matt mc — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:59:17 +0000

that’s right. FUCKING SOLAR PANELS ON THE WHITE HOUSE!!! how cool is that?