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Coulter and Hannity Protest Carter's 28-year Presidency

Ann's love for all that agrees with her is apparent in her column plugging Sean Hannity's latest book, "Deliver Us From Evil". Within the column, she takes a few lines to attack Jimmy Carter's statement on the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan. Carter stated, "This action of the Soviets made a more dramatic change in my own opinion of what the Soviets' ultimate goals are than anything they've done in the previous time I've been in office."

The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan was a surprise to the USA. Anybody who could read a newspaper in the mid-seventies knew that. There was no memo from our deep-cover CIA operatives in the Kremlin titled, "Brezhnev Determined to Strike Inside Afghanistan", that Carter summarily dismissed.

However, Hannity (and Coulter) then list a series of communist atrocities that were supposed to clue Carter into the "Soviet's ultimate goals". Atrocities from Chairman Mao, Stalin, Cambodian genocide, and the Berlin Wall. Heavy stuff, but as usual, completely off the topic of Carter's quote. Did they misread it? No, it's used identically by both of them in the paragraphs preceding their mudslinging. Do they understand what he said? Apparently not.

The problem is that almost none of their fine examples have anything to do with Soviet activities during the Carter administration, and none even hint at Soviet nation-building intentions. Chairman Mao, (who died prior to Carter taking office) was never a reliable barometer for Soviet intentions, due to the fact that he ran an entirely different country. Stalin died in 1953. If Stalin was mass murdering people during Carter's presidency, then Carter would have had to have been President in 1953, right? Stalin was a brutal dictator, but surely he wasn't murdering people after his death. Freddy Krueger, maybe; Stalin, no. How about Cambodian genocide? Was this a Soviet activity during the first part of Carter's administration? Again, no- this was an internal Cambodian uprising orchestrated by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, which was arguably anti-communist.

Of course, the Berlin Wall existed during Carter's presidency. This structure, since 1961, supposedly held the secret plans for understanding Soviet intentions. Maybe a false brick concealed an invasion map of Afghanistan, which we could have used to counter the Soviet invasion, if only Carter had sent Colonel Hogan to look for it.