Iran and the Nobel Peace Prize Presidents

By Dennis L. Weisman January 15, 2020

I. Introduction

For the second time in 40 years, a Republican President was forced to clean up the mess left by his Democrat predecessor’s failures in Iran. The first time was when a group of Muslim “college students” overran the U.S. embassy in 1979 and paralyzed the Carter administration for more than a year. The second time was when the Obama administration, in a move reminiscent of British PM Chamberlain’s futile attempt to appease Hitler, sent a plane-load of cash in the middle of the night to Tehran to induce the rogue nation to stand down on its nuclear program. The irony with Carter and Obama, both Nobel Peace Prize recipients, is that their policies precipitated “war” not peace.

Aesop's fable of the scorpion and frog captures the essence of the problem:

"A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a babbling stream. It's too treacherous to cross, so the scorpion nicely asks the frog to carry him across on its back. This makes the frog a little suspicious. It asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.” That sound reasoning relaxes the frog's nerves. So he allows the scorpion to climb aboard and they shove off across the flowing water. They get halfway across the stream and the scorpion stings the frog directly in the middle of his back. The frog feels the onset of the scorpion's poison and starts to sink. He manages one dying breath: "Why?!" And the scorpion replies: “It’s my nature…”

 II. James Earl Carter Jr. ............ To Read More

My Take - This piece was a good one, but the author was entirely too understanding, too kind and too forgiving of the motives and actions of both Carter and Obama. Carter's administration was a disaster, both in foreign policy and the nations economy.

Most are too young to remember the gas lines, running out of natural gas in the middle of a very cold period, and the 20 percent inflation his administration created with his policies.

A foreign policy disaster that allowed the current terrorist mess by his abandonment of the Shah of Iran. His signing of the Community Re-investment act was what caused the housing bubble that exploded and created a massive worldwide recession, thirty years later.

As for his "righteous" image. Carter is a subscriber of the "social gospel" which in effect promotes the idea socialism is the practical application of Christian ethics.  How brain dead is that?

Obama was either a criminal or ignorant and stupid, or all of the above. Take your pick, because the amount of corruption surrounding Obama was impossible to avoid noticing. He was a talented speaker, but he was an even more talented liar. He has put in place things that may not come to negative fruition for years. That's the problem with these guys. They put things into place that create disasters after they're gone.

Nixon was just as bad, if not worse, with his creation of OSHA, the EPA, and passage of NEPA, the Endangered Species Act and more. He's been long gone and his actions still haunt America. But at least he didn't receive that paragon of leftist hypocrisy the Nobel Peace Prize.

Both Carter and Obama are anti-semites whose only accomplishment was to undermine America, America's allies, the American identity, the American culture and the American economy. Their goal? Overturning the Constitution and imposing a socialist state, and preferably under the auspices of the most corrupt incompetent organization the world has ever known. The United Nations. Everything either of them did borders on treason.