I have always had great respect for former President Jimmy Carter. His values are what I consider to be at the heart of America's faith-based belief system and general concept of honesty and decency. When he speaks and writes, I listen. Today he said President George W. Bush's administration is "the worst in history" referring to the White House's policy of pre-emptive war and other matters. He also blasted Bush's environmental policies and what he characterized as the administration's "quite disturbing" funding for faith-based initiatives.
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history," Carter told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a story that appeared in today's editions. "The overt reversal of America's basic values as expressed by previous administrations, including those of George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon and others, has been the most disturbing to me."
"We now have endorsed the concept of pre-emptive war where we go to war with another nation militarily, even though our own security is not directly threatened, if we want to change the regime there or if we fear that some time in the future our security might be endangered," President Carter said. "But that's been a radical departure from all previous administration policies."
Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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