Irony is often hilarious
The United States Navy is commissioning an attack submarine after the 39th president of the United States -- Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter and attack hardly seem like words that belong in the same story, much less the same sentence.
His Carter Center claims as a mission to wage peace. In 1999, during the Kosovo campaign, Carter wrote this for the New York Times: "The approach the United States has taken recently has been to devise a solution that best suits its own purposes, recruit at least tacit support in whichever forum it can best influence, provide the dominant military force, present an ultimatum to recalcitrant parties and then take punitive action against the entire nation to force compliance. The often tragic result of this final decision is that already oppressed citizens suffer, while the oppressor may feel free of further consequences if he perpetrates even worse crimes."
London's leftist paper The Daily Mirror wrote this glowing tribute to Carter during the run-up to the war in Iraq: "The Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the only US president since 1945 never to order American soldiers into war, endorsed our stance on war with Iraq, saying: 'You're doing a good job. I am glad about that. War is evil.' Carter, who will be 79 this year, is a pariah among hawkish Republicans and a hero for doveish Democrats, frequently denouncing wars and conflict whenever they flare."
And of course, there was that strange attack on Carter, during his presidency, by the killer bunny rabbit, "hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared" while Carter was fishing.
One of the (unintentionally, I'm sure) hilarious lines in the Navy press release is the following: "Jimmy Carter will have built-in flexibility and an array of new warfighting features that will enable it to prevail in any scenario, against any threat – from beneath Arctic ice to shallow water." Which will be helpful, of course, if Jimmy Carter encounters any more rabbits in the water.
UPDATE: Here is a link to the picture of the vicious bunny attack.
His Carter Center claims as a mission to wage peace. In 1999, during the Kosovo campaign, Carter wrote this for the New York Times: "The approach the United States has taken recently has been to devise a solution that best suits its own purposes, recruit at least tacit support in whichever forum it can best influence, provide the dominant military force, present an ultimatum to recalcitrant parties and then take punitive action against the entire nation to force compliance. The often tragic result of this final decision is that already oppressed citizens suffer, while the oppressor may feel free of further consequences if he perpetrates even worse crimes."
London's leftist paper The Daily Mirror wrote this glowing tribute to Carter during the run-up to the war in Iraq: "The Nobel Peace Prize winner, and the only US president since 1945 never to order American soldiers into war, endorsed our stance on war with Iraq, saying: 'You're doing a good job. I am glad about that. War is evil.' Carter, who will be 79 this year, is a pariah among hawkish Republicans and a hero for doveish Democrats, frequently denouncing wars and conflict whenever they flare."
And of course, there was that strange attack on Carter, during his presidency, by the killer bunny rabbit, "hissing menacingly, its teeth flashing and nostrils flared" while Carter was fishing.
One of the (unintentionally, I'm sure) hilarious lines in the Navy press release is the following: "Jimmy Carter will have built-in flexibility and an array of new warfighting features that will enable it to prevail in any scenario, against any threat – from beneath Arctic ice to shallow water." Which will be helpful, of course, if Jimmy Carter encounters any more rabbits in the water.
UPDATE: Here is a link to the picture of the vicious bunny attack.
posted by Hal | 10:03 AM
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