Jimmy Carter is Quite Mad

Jimmy Carter is Quite Mad

I'm using space to post this news item, intact, so that it will have a life outside of Atlanta's Channel 11 News.  Some time in the future the debate will be "When did Jimmy Carter become insane?," and I want documentation. Carter Blames Bush For Korean Crisis Former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday night that an agreement he brokered 12 years ago for North Korea to halt nuclear weapons development is “in the wastebasket." Carter contends the Bush administration turned its back on the deal and labeled the isolated nation part of an “axis of evil.” But Carter, speaking at a previously scheduled panel discussion on his 1994 mediation, said he does not foresee the current dispute over North Korea’s test of a nuclear bomb leading to war. Carter said that in 1994, war “appeared to be imminent” if the Clinton administration had pushed sanctions against North Korea through the UN Security Council. But he said it is less likely now. Although North Korea branded sanctions imposed by the security council as an act of war, Carter said they are not as stringent as those proposed by the Clinton administration 12 years ago. Carter appeared with his wife, Rosalynn, and former Ambassador to South Korea James Laney in the panel discussion at The Carter Center in Atlanta. They were joined by Marion Creekmore, author of the book “A Moment of Crisis,” about his 1994 trip with the Carters to Pyongyang. Laney said it appeared that war was certain before Carter’s trip, which demonstrated to him that every opportunity for peaceful resolution of a crisis must be used. [video] Carter goes on to say (in the video) that we don't have a dialog with Hamas [or al-Qaeda], or anyone else with whom we have a disagreement, which leads Iran, understandably,  to realize that the only way to get any attention is to have a nuclear device of their own.  That, Mr. Carter, is why you are the worst president (who is not a certified  sociopath) in the nation's history.  [See also The Charlie Brown Democrats]