Jimmy Carter: The liability that keeps on taking

One of the past mysteries respecting Sith blogroller "Barnum's Baileywick" (Wick o' the Bailey) has been his stated esteem for former U.S. president Jimmy Carter.

With another hat-tip to Powerline, I recommend reading a review of Carter that places Carter as the worst ex-president.

With an interest toward fairness, I spot-checked one of the most startling claims in the story:

As for the “general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups,” they too need to make it clear that they “will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism”—but only “when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.” In other words, it is all right for terrorism against Israel to continue.

And here it is in Carter's words:

An important fact to remember is that President Mahmoud Abbas retains all presidential authority that was exercised by Yasir Arafat when he negotiated the Oslo Agreement, and the Hamas prime minister has stated that his government supports peace talks between Israel and Abbas. He added that Hamas would modify its rejection of Israel if there is a negotiated agreement that Palestinians can approve (as specified in the Camp David Accords). It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel.

Earlier in his summary, Carter says

There are two interrelated obstacles to permanent peace in the Middle East:

1. Some Israelis believe they have the right to confiscate and colonize Palestinian land and try to justify the sustained subjugation and persecution of increasingly hopeless and aggravated Palestinians; and
2. Some Palestinians react by honoring suicide bombers as martyrs to be rewarded in heaven and consider the killing of Israelis as victories.

(PPNA)

So, at least Carter recognizes terrorism against Israel as something of a problem. It's as though he lives a dreamworld concerning Palestinian attitudes, however.

Regarding other modes of violence, following the war, there is no change in Palestinians’ support for armed attacks against Israeli civilians inside Israel. 56% of the Palestinians supported it before the war in March 2006, compared to 57% who support it now.
(Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research)

Add to this the erosion of support for Carter from his organization's advisory board ... I wonder what Barnum's Baileywick thinks of all this?