The Disarming Mr. Carter

Jimmy Carter, our most annoying former president, blames the US for being the "major culprit in this erosion of the Non-Proliferation Treaty." Maybe Carter has a point - maybe our nuclear arms policies are counterproductive - I don't really know. But his record as president alone (he signed the doomed/accomodationist SALT II treaty), never mind his peace-nik internationalism of the past 25 years, doesn't give him a lot of influence over US policy - and then he just loves to talk to foreign audiences in ways that make us sound like the bad guys.