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I thought it was abrupt and reaching. It felt like the author has this tidbit about Carter laying around that he'd been holding on to, but wasn't sure where to
by clebio 11y ago
I thought it was abrupt and reaching. It felt like the author has this tidbit about Carter laying around that he'd been holding on to, but wasn't sure where to use it. He thought it could maybe fit here, but it just was jarring. Not to mention that Carter isn't quite recent enough for me to really have any context about the comparison (what policy decisions set Carter apart?). Finally, the injection of race and religion in this otherwise unrelated article was just out of the blue.
- mod 11y agoThe "injection of race and religion" was not that at all, rather an observation of the usual "identity" attached to him. I agree with the idea that many or most readers won't have a working knowledge of Carter's policy--I certainly fall into that group.
- dunmalg 11y agoYeah, the Carter bit made no sense. I remember Carter, and a lot of his bad decisions were very much NOT the result of "engineer thinking". One that comes immediately to mind is his executive order outlawing breeder reactors, which has basically saddled us with being unable to cleanly reprocess reactor waste back into usable fuel. Never mind the fact that only a very specific type of breeder reactor produces weapons-grade plutonium, and never mind that as a nuclear enginner he SHOULD have known this, he still banned them in a bizarre attempt to ingratiate himself with the 70's "disarmament/anti nuke" movement that never seemed to fully grasp the distinction between nuclear WEAPONS and nuclear POWER.