I am one of millions who admire Jimmy Carter for his courage, compassion and ethics.
The letter from David Hubner berates Carter as “a nice guy, but he was a weakling.”
His cheap shot that “Carter couldn’t even get a helicopter off the ground” is, to my ear, dismissive of both the suffering of the Delta Force commandos and pilots who participated in that rescue attempt and of the agony of a commander who must send boys to their deaths.
Hubner also mentions gasoline and gold prices, interest rates and, finally, big cars as the criteria we must use to “define our values.”
I saw an Iraqi demonstrator’s placard on TV the other day.
It read: “America: a nation of sheep owned by pigs and led by wolves.” I was very angry at that Iraqi’s taunt until I read Hubner’s letter.
I now find it much easier to forgive the Iraqi.
