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.
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.
ReplyDeleteComrade Carter was the greatest president ever, on the basis of his re-awakening the world to the dangers of 20+% interest rates and inflation.
ReplyDeleteWiping 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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