From: Arlo J. Bensinger (ajb102@psu.edu)
Date: Sat Apr 30 2005 - 20:14:01 BST
[Arlo previously]
> Please tell me every one *except* Jimmy Carter. His is the one
> presidency in recent history that I not only admire, but the only
> president who I feel is, as the Indians described Dusenberry, "a Good
> man".
[msh responded]
> First, I want to say I use the "every American president would be
> hanged" line to get people's attention. Like Ant, I doubt that all
> of them would have received death sentences, but they'd certainly
> have done some hard time.
>
> Of the recent presidents, I agree that Carter is by far the least
> objectionable, and generally most moral. However, it is hard to
> imagine that he was unaware of his administration's vast military and
> economic support for Indonesia's genocidal invasion and occupation of
> East Timor.
Mark,
Well... now you've just gone and ruined my weekend. :-( In one of the link you
provided I read:
"It was the Carter administration (1977-1980), for example, that provided
Jakarta with OV-10 Bronco counter-insurgency aircraft used to bomb and napalm
the East Timorese into submission -- a situation an Australian parliamentary
report later described as one of ''indiscriminate killing on a scale
unprecedented in post-World War II history.''"
I had not known this about the Carter administration, and it sickens me. But it
is proof, like you've suggested. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go pour my
stash of Billy Beer down the drain.
Sigh.
Arlo
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