Jimmy Carter... the worst president ever. Maybe the second worst. The votes aren't all in yet...
took a swipe at recent US foreign policy in an interview with Time.
Carter had some chiding words for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Henry L. Stimson...
and US President Barack Obama
...I am not a dictator!
for not taking a more proactive role in trying to bring peace in the Middle East.
"I know from experience that the best way to have the United States be a mediator is for the President himself to be deeply involved. In this occasion, when Secretary Clinton was Secretary of State, she took very little action to bring about peace. It was only John F.
I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a
lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
's coming into office that re-initiated all these very important and crucial issues."
This is not the first time Carter has been outspoken against Obama's foreign policy. He has slammed the president in previous remarks about the increased use of drones in the Middle East and NSA surveillance of foreign leaders.
He didn't save all of his criticism for the B.O. regime but criticized US foreign policy as a whole, saying that the United States has become the "number one warmonger on Earth."
"You can look at the record: ever since the United Nations
...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships...
was formed after the Second World War, the United States has almost constantly been at war somewhere. There are about 30 countries where we have initiated armed conflict."
He gave some praise for Kerry, saying that his efforts were "notable" as he leads Iranian nuclear talks and tries to mediate Israeli-Paleostinian peace negotiations.
Carter said he had some insight into the current Russian situation in Crimea as he had faced something similar during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Carter warned then Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev that he would unleash every weapon the US had at its disposal if he went any further with military action. The USSR's military thrust stagnated in Afghanistan and Carter did not have to follow through on his threat but he did admit the US provided weapons to the Afghan freedom fighters.