Blog #3 Jimmy Carter: U.S. unnecessarily making enemies by abandoning human rights

Analysis

            On Thursday former President Jimmy Carter visited Drake University and gave a speech on the current conditions of Egypt’s government.  Currently Egypt is turning into a fair democracy based government.  Which gives the people of Egypt more rights and freedoms.  Jimmy Carter goes on to say  “you have to remember that after the United States declared our independence in 1776, it was 12 years before we had a constitution and solidified our government. So we can’t expect the Egyptians to do it in less than one year”.  Carter also explains that Egypt is still considered an associate nation to the United States even after “violent protests at the U.S. embassy in Cairo”.  Obama, however, thinks that Egypt is “neither an ally or a foe”.  Carter also supports the President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, who has tried to make a difference for human rights and keeping the peace with other nations.  The United States is also trying to aid the efforts of discontinuing the civil war in Syria; instead, Carter believes using politics would be a better way to end the violence.  Through his years as the President of the United States, he has fought for human rights and believes our country is getting used to the punishments other countries use.  He is also upset with the “American practice of killing people” which is a recent development.  In the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, “approximately 300 men” are being held there and were not given a trial, which is a human right in America.  After his speech Jimmy Carter answered all of the students questions and left Drake University with a new view human rights.

Summary

            Egypt’s political system is in a stage of transition into becoming a democracy.  As such violence has occurred in Cairo and other places in Egypt.  Jimmy Carter an ex-president has for years pushed basic human rights not just in the United States but also in other countries.  A lot of the people in Egypt aren’t given rights and are forced to work in labor because that is what their global market depends on.  Roughly forty percent of Egypt’s people are in poverty and some go into the labor market to get out of poverty and move up in their social class.  Which for the people in poverty is very hard to do without an education, which they can’t get.  Later, Jimmy Carter goes on to tell the students at Drake University that America is also starting to ignore human rights.  He goes explaining his point by telling the students that a military base in Guantanamo Bay is holding “approximately 300 men” without a trial.  Even though our country says that everyone is innocent until proven guilty.  These men were never proven innocent or guilty, which means our government is lacking providing the men with their basic human rights.  Carter then asks questions to the students and is impressed by what ideas the students are coming up with.  So overall Egypt is having some trouble with power in their government and is lacking on giving their citizens with human rights, and the U. S. is trying to help which is only making things worse.  

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