Jimmy Carter Zimbabwe and the Wrong Side of History

Since the US is on it’s way to putting another Carter Administration in power, we thought we would revisit how Jimmy Carter helped the Zimbabwe people by endorsing Mugabe.

In April of 1979, the first fully democratic election in Zimbabwe history’s occurred. Of the eligible black voters, 64% participated, braving the threat of terrorist attacks by Mr. Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party, which managed to kill 10 people. Prior to the election, Mr. Mugabe had issued a death list with 50 individuals he named as “traitors, fellow-travelers, and puppets of the Ian Smith regime, opportunistic running-dogs and other capitalist vultures.” Nevertheless, Bishop Abel Muzorewa of the United Methodist Church emerged victorious and became prime minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia, as the new country was called.

Yet the Carter administration, led by the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, would have none of it. Mr. Young referred to Mr. Muzorewa, one of the very few democratically elected leaders on the African continent, as the head of a “neo-fascist” government. Mr. Carter refused to meet Mr. Muzorewa when the newly elected leader visited Washington to seek support from our country, nor did he lift sanctions that America had placed on Rhodesia as punishment for the colony’s unilateral declaration of independence from the British Empire in 1965.

Messrs. Carter and Young would only countenance a settlement in which Mr. Mugabe, a Marxist who had repeatedly made clear his intention to turn Zimbabwe into a one-party state, played a leading role. Mr. Young, displaying the willful naiveté that came to characterize Mr. Carter’s mindset, told the London Times that Mr. Mugabe was a “very gentle man” whom he “can’t imagine … ever pulling the trigger on a gun to kill anyone.” source

How silent Jimmy Carter is of Mugabe now. Leftists like to flirt with Marxists like Fidel and Chavez. Jimmy Carter never has a bad thing to say about them. Well what is Jimmy Carters legacy in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela and Africa? Being on the wrong side of history should at one point discredit someone in the real world. But in the utopia of the Left, failure is of no concern. It is all good intentions and good intentions has led to disaster for the left and many people around the world (DDT) time and time again.

The Left was on the wrong side of history in the Cold War. The Cold War! How much on the wrong side of history could the Left have been when they opposed everything Reagan did to defeat the Soviets? Everyone celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall except the Left. And now they hate Bush as much as Reagan. They mock Bush as stupid, an idiot. But Bush has kept his ground and may be on the verge of pulling off a miracle in Iraq. In fact it looks like the brave US soldiers just might come home with their head up instead of down which puts the Left on the wrong side of history again…mpress