r/neoconNWO • u/Sir-Matilda John Howard • 3d ago
Conservatism’s Debts to Jimmy Carter | National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/conservatisms-debts-to-jimmy-carter/17
u/Fifth-Dimension-1966 tard 3d ago
Jimmy was a better president than most remember, but he made some horrible foreign policy decisions. His three big fo-po wins, Camp David, Torrijos-Carter, and normalization with the PRC, were all things that started under Nixon and he just shepherded through, when he actually got a crisis, the Iranian revolution, he failed.
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u/Peacock-Shah-III Bayard Rustin 3d ago
PRC normalization was a mistake.
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u/NephilimSoldier United States Army 3d ago
In hindsight. It was a gamble that we lost.
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u/ReturnoftheTurd 3d ago
And it should have been obvious. I mean, you don’t get to rest on hindsight when you’re talking about communist dictatorships when we were in the middle of the Cold War.
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u/JerseyJedi 3d ago
I think opening relations with China and playing them against Moscow to exacerbate the Sino-Soviet split in the 1970’s-80’s was the right move for that particular time.
After the Soviet empire collapsed and the CCP murdered the protesters in Tiananmen Square, US foreign policy should’ve re-hardened towards China again and pressured them on human rights issues and economic policy.
I think a strategy of pursuing an opening of relations with China in the 70’s to destabilize the USSR and then following up by putting pressure back on China to democratize in the 90’s would’ve been the right long-term one-two punch to free the world from both Soviet and CCP tyranny. As it is, we made the mistake of assuming that exposure to American markets would liberalize China. Instead, it just made US corporations more willing to kowtow to the CCP regime and gave Beijing a chance to gain influence elsewhere.
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u/spaceqwests Tricky Dick 3d ago
He was far worse. His energy policy was a joke. Go put on a sweater was his policy to handle rolling blackouts and oil shortages.
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u/DankBankman_420 3d ago
Every time I drink a beer I thank God for Jimmy Carter. Pour one out for the man who legalized craft beer 🍺