Carter Nixes Debate With Outspoken Prof

Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."

Carter, author of a new book advocating "peace not apartheid" in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz.

"I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter said in Friday's Boston Globe. "There is no need ... to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."

Predictable. Carter isn't interested in debate or dialog. He is desperately seeking someone to take him seriously, other than the collection of thugs and bullying dictators he has endeared himself to. He has to be aware that the more of this kind of nonsense he pulls, the smaller the potential group is that will listen to him any more.

The school's debate request, Carter said, is proof that many in the United States are unwilling to hear an alternative view on the nation's most taboo foreign policy issue, Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.

Huh? That makes no sense. A debate pretty much includes an "alternate view." I think the alternate view Carter fears is the one that proves he is both an attention whore and a useful idiot for any number of degenerate causes.

People who continue to defend Carter are doing so under one of two conditions: An agenda of their own or willful ignorance.