What exactly has Carter done that's propagated world peace? Was it the talks at Camp David between Israel and Palestine? They're still fighting. Was it his hadling of the Iranian Hostage Crisis? They're still our enemy. Carter has some wonderful ideas, unfortunately most of them didn't work. I'm having a rather hard time thinking of anything Carter did that showed any lasting benefit to our country or the world at all.
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Oops, I really had a major brain fart, and mixed up different Nobel Prizes in my head.
I was actually thinking of the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize, that was shared by Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin for the peace agreement between Egypt and Israel. Carter was very instrumental in those negotiations, and should have shared in the Peace Prize for that year too.
Egypt and Israel still remain at peace today.
It was President Clinton who was cheated in the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. He definitely should have shared in that award. Although as you point out, the Palestinian situation is still not resolved.
When President Carter got the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, the Nobel committee listed these accomplishments:
"President Carter and The Carter Center have engaged in conflict mediation in Ethiopia and Eritrea (1989), North Korea (1994), Liberia (1994), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1994), Sudan (1995), the Great Lakes region of Africa (1995-96), Sudan and Uganda (1999), and Venezuela (2002-2003). Under his leadership The Carter Center has sent forty-five international election monitoring delegations to elections in the Americas, Africa, and Asia. These include Panama (1989), Nicaragua (1990), Guyana (1992), Venezuela (1998), Nigeria (1999), Indonesia (1999), East Timor (1999), Mexico (2000), China (2001), and Jamaica (2002)."
I think that one can clearly argue that President Carter deserved the Nobel Peace Prize far more than Al Gore deserved getting it last year.
The Nobel committee must have been doing drugs when it made the 2007 Peace Prize choice.
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