Carter's unpeaceful administration

[John M Cox <coxj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nobel Peace Prize goes to Jimmy Carterthe friendly face of US imperialism
By Bill Vann
12 October 2002
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It was highly appropriate for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to award its
annual Peace Prizenamed for the inventor of dynamiteto former US president
Jimmy Carter. The consequences of actions initiated under his
administration 25 years ago are today producing a veritable explosion of
American militarism from Afghanistan to the Persian Gulf.

Having for years shamelessly lobbied for the prize, Carter now joins the
ranks of three prior US statesmen who were honored by the committee in
Norway as men of peace. The first was Theodore Roosevelt, who explicitly
embraced the white mans burden of American imperialism. Announcing that
his policy was to carry a big stick, he repeatedly used military force to
suppress the democratic aspirations of the peoples of Central America, the
Caribbean and the Philippines.

The second was Woodrow Wilson, who continued these colonial interventions,
led the US into World War I, and dispatched American troops to Russia to
aid the counterrevolutionary White armies in their attempt to overthrow
the workers state that emerged from the October, 1917 socialist
revolution.

The third was Henry Kissinger, who now is unable to leave the US for fear
of being dragged into courts in Latin America and Europe as a war
criminal. His award was given in recognition of the Paris peace accord,
extorted from the Vietnamese after the Christmas 1972 terror bombings of
Hanoi and Haiphong.

Carters record during his four years in office places him squarely within
the ranks of such well-known pacifists.


full article: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/oct2002/cart-o12.shtml



John Cox
Chapel Hill, NC

"If the truth is anti-American, then blame the truth, don't blame me."
Malcolm X, Feb. 11, 1965


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