Another War Criminal Has Died in His Own Bed

Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

As I have noted, I consider Jimmy Carter to be a war criminal for the evil that he inflicted on Afghanistan.

He and Zbigniew Brzezinski bought a civil war in Afghanistan just to f%$# with the Soviets.  Brzezinski admitted as much in an an interview with the Nouvelle Observateur in 1998.

This was about 5 years after the Vietnam war had ended, with the deaths of 1.4 million Vietnamese civilians.

So massive destruction and death was almost a certainty when this decision was made.

1.5 million Afghan civilians died from 1978 to 1992, though it could be argued that the casualties after 1992 are also a part of Carter's toxic legacy.  (There is also about 200,000 additional casualties after 2001, but who's counting?)

And then there is the whole creation of the whole global Jihadi movement, and some unpleasantness in New York on September 11, 2001.

It should be noted that Carter is not alone in this sort of foreign interventions, nor is he alone in the long term failures that resulted.  (Look at Iran, Chile, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Syria, Guatemala, Nicaragua,  Indonesia, Iraq, Congo,  Dominican Republic, Brazil, Angola, East Timor, Argentina, etc.)

Credit where credit is due, he did not cash in after he lost the 1980 election the way that his Democratic successors did, but that is kind of like saying, "Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play."