Carter's Unhelpful Freelancing

[Boston Globe] Editorial - Jimmy Carter sets a bad precedent by conducting his own foreign policy. How would he have reacted if his predecessors made similar gestures while he was toasting the Shah of Iran on New Year's Eve 1977 as "an island of stability," or when he had the Pentagon tell Iranian generals to allow Ayatollah Khomeini to return to Iran? Carter may have good intentions, but he should know better than anyone that there can be only one chief of state at a time.


2008-04-21 01:00:00

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