Power Line: Errors, omissions, inventions and falsehoods: "President Carter's book on the Middle East, a title too inflammatory to even print, is not based on unvarnished analyses; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments. Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book. Being a former President does not give one a unique privilege to invent information or to unpack it with cuts, deftly slanted to provide a particular outlook. Having little access to Arabic and Hebrew sources, I believe, clearly handicapped his understanding and analyses of how history has unfolded over the last decade. Falsehoods, if repeated often enough become meta-truths, and they then can become the erroneous baseline for shaping and reinforcing attitudes and for policy-making. The history and interpretation of the Arab-Israeli conflict is already drowning in half-truths, suppositions, and self-serving myths; more are not necessary."
This is just a fun bit; read it all.
Updated and bumped to point out my favorite comment on this, over at Althouse:
Carter must rewrite history. Otherwise, he would have to confront honestly his own place in it.
3 comments:
Devastating letter for the integrity of Carter's opinion on the ME. I've read elsewhere others asking what Carter's response will be to Dr. Stein's resignation and reasons for same. I would venture the silence will be deafening. Both from Carter and the MSM. I will not read about this in my local fish-wrap.
Comrade Carter was the greatest president ever, on the basis of his re-awakening the world to the dangers of 20+% interest rates and inflation.
Wiping out such a catastrophic amount of asset valuation from the American account was the ideal "waker-upper' for a people become overconfident about the non-stupidness of their political process.
Yep--Brinkley is one of the more deft swift-boat counter-attackers. He'll concede just enough of their charges to achieve cred, while guiding you toward the idea that overall they were all politics and thus full o' sh*t. My impression, anyhoo.
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