Treason, Pure and Simple

Jimmy Carter is no longer amusing.

Strap a tool belt to him and have him pound some nails in a wall for the Habitat for Humanity group somewhere, and that's sort of harmless fun.

Listen to him rant in a half-senile speech at some community college commencement and that's sort of harmless fun too.

But his decision now to sit down and "chat" with a sworn enemy of freedom, the U.S. and it's allies, is no longer harmless fun. It is in fact, treason. Disgusting enough if he was just an ordinary Georgia ex-farmer and discontent. But somehow, he became a U.S. President, and just as quickly became an ex-President, and unfortunately that makes him much more than harmless. In the eyes of an enemy like Hamas, it gives them comfort. It gives them a stage and a voice. It helps them. And that makes it a treasonous act, period.

We have, and probably always will negotiate with enemies of the U.S.. But it is long-standing policy of the U.S. not to conduct any diplomacy with terrorists. Nothing which would give them any level of legitimacy. At least not until they had proven that they could and would, end the taking of the innocent lives. This is an important distinction, but one that Jimmy Carter apparently doesn't agree with, nor care about.

Jimmy Carter has become more than an embarrassment. He has become a serious liability to Freedom. Conversely, Freedom has it's own liabilities, and in America, it's free speech to the ignorant like Jimmy Carter, ex-Commander in Chief, and now an enemy within.