Although I suppose I may be jumping to conclusions. It's possible that Jimmy Carter is simply the most (willfully) ignorant man who has ever set foot in the Oval Office. He might also just be the most senile man who has ever set foot in the Oval Office. If he's none of those, and he also isn't the Dumbest man ever to set foot in the Oval Office, then he's the biggest anti-Semite who's ever set foot in the Oval Office, and yes, I know what a broad statement that is.
How else can his most recent piece for ForeignPolicy.com be explained? In it, he toes around the issue of responsibility for the tragedies that have been occurring in the Middle East for approximately the last month or so, but does so in a way that shades Israel as the bad guy. If only Israel would stop trying to eliminate the persons who are attempting to its existence, then the world would be a better place, or so Mr. Carter's thought process seems to suggest.
I suppose it's possible that Mr. Carter has never got around to reading the charter of Hamas, and if that's the case, then we can attribute his article to intentional ignorance. I've read it, and I'm not even a former President trying to keep myself in the spotlight by pretending like I have a new solution to a problem that dates back several millennia. Especially when I don't have a viable solution.
Articles like the one that Carter chose to write and publish are one of the reasons why former Presidents should simply fade in to the background when their time in office has passed, and allow the next generation of 'leaders' make decisions as they see fit. If Carter was interested in advising the current President, or even members of Congress, that would be one thing. He could meet with them in private and discuss his thoughts, and perhaps with a meeting of so many 'great' minds, a real solution would come about. Mind, I don't think it's likely, but it would be a far better solution than the one Carter has proffered at this point in history.
Or if Carter is really interested in having his voice heard, he should run for President again. After all, his first tenure was such a disaster that he became the first President in 48 years to not be re-elected (Of course, since that time, George H.W. Bush has followed in his footsteps.)
