GOP Rep.: Revoke Jimmy Carter's passport for Hamas visits

How do these Bozos get elected? This is the reaction from one Republican on Fox News. She wants Jimmy Carter's passport revoked for talking to Hamas:

"He's just unilaterally going off on his own and undermining everything the international community and the United States is (sic) trying to do," protested Republican U.S. House Rep. Sue Myrick (NC-09) today in the call to revoke the passport of former president Jimmy Carter.

Myrick also wants taxpayer funds to the Carter Center, which conducts humanitarian efforts worldwide, severed. "Why," the lawmaker asks, "should we support his center when he will not support his government?"

"Frankly," the lawmaker said, "I wanted to send a strong message, because we have a policy in this country about Hamas, and he is just deliberately undermining that policy, and it's wrong.

The Republican policy regarding Hamas has been little less than disastrous, so why wouldn't one want to change a policy which has produced zero results in seven years other than to produce a civil war in the occupied territories in which Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip?

And, considering the fact that Hamas were elected by the Palestinians, how can one hold any kind of talks regarding the future of the Palestinians whilst ignoring the people that they have chosen as their democratic representatives?

President Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for seeking an end to conflicts, including the Israeli/Palestinian issue, and is certainly much more versed on the issue than the morons who are now lining up to attack him.

And, as he rightly states:

Carter also pointed out that he didn't wait until his last days in office to broker peace between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in the late 1970s.

Bush has ignored the Israeli/Palestine conflict for almost his entire presidency, believing that Israel could find a solution if she was allowed to use more force. He once famously told Colin Powell that he was going to "tilt" US foreign policy back in favour of Israel.

Bush's move away from being an honest broker began soon after he took office. Author Ron Suskind has reported that Bush announced at his first National Security Council meeting, "We're going to tilt back toward Israel." When then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, fearing that Bush would encourage the Israeli army in the West Bank, warned that "the consequences of that could be dire, especially for the Palestinians," Bush responded, "Sometimes a show for force by one side can really clarify things."

After seven years of catastrophic failure in the region which has resulted in a war in Lebanon which Israel lost, it is perhaps time to accept that ignoring people you don't like isn't actually a policy. It's a recipe for failure.

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Tags: Israel, Palestine, Carter, Hamas