Jimmy Carter: liberal, crazy or stupid? Probably all three.

I typically try to avoid insulting people, but sometimes they just say or do things that bring out the worst in me. However, the worst in me is better than those things. Case in point, Jimmy Carter on Hardball:

MATTHEWS: Let me ask you the question about—this is going to cause some trouble with people—but as an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the War, insurgency against a powerful British force, do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?

CARTER: Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War, more than any other war up until recently, has been the most bloody war we‘ve fought.

Say what? Okay, ignoring the obvious slight towards President Bush ("up until recently") for now, Carter is a little off on his thinking. (Big surprise, eh?) The Revolutionary War resulted in less than 5,000 American deaths. The Civil War and World War II resulted in the deaths of over 600,000 and over 400,000 respectively - 1 million total. Now, the war in Iraq and the subsequent acts of terror there have cost the lives of just over 1,000 Americans - not even close to the deaths in the Revolutionary War.

I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war.

ALL wars could have been avoided, but the Revolutionary War was not unnecessary.

Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive

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RED ALERT!!! RED ALERT!!!
LIBERALESE DETECTED!!! LIBERALESE DETECTED!!!
WARNING!!! WARNING!!! DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!!!
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"A little more sensitive." Yeah, right! And if we had been just "a little more sensitive" to Saddam's brutal, murderous dictatorship, we never would've had to have used military force to oust him. Why, he would've just handed over his keys just like that.

to the colonial‘s really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely, and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a nonviolent way.

No, we wouldn't have been a free country because the British would've crushed us.

I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time.

You know, it sickens me that Carter is comparing the modern U.S. to late-1700s England and Iraq to Colonial America. It's like comparing apples to offal.

Ugh. I need to go bathe after reading that. Yuck.