Carter Tells All
In an interview with Germany's Der Spiegel. Can you guess who Carter is speaking about here:
The fundamentalists believe they have a unique relationship with God, and that they and their ideas are God's ideas and God's premises on the particular issue. Therefore, by definition since they are speaking for God anyone who disagrees with them is inherently wrong. And the next step is: Those who disagree with them are inherently inferior, and in extreme cases -- as is the case with some fundamentalists around the world -- it makes your opponents sub-humans, so that their lives are not significant. Another thing is that a fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality. And so this administration, for instance, has a policy of just refusing to talk to someone who is in strong disagreement with them -- which is also a radical departure from past history.
If you guessed Osama Bin Laden or Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, you're wrong. Here's another hint:
And, of course, fundamentalists don't believe they can make mistakes, so when we permit the torture of prisoners in Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib, it's just impossible for a fundamentalist to admit that a mistake was made.
That's right, he's talking about his own elected President George Bush. The man who did nothing to stop the rise of Islamic Fundamentalism which is fueling terrorism today has the gall to critisize the only president trying to end the threat once and for all. Left up to Carter and his Party, most of Eastern Europe and 50 million Arabs in Iraq and Afghanistan would still be in slavery.