Former US President Jimmy Carter is at again, interfering in US Presidential Policy:

… former President Carter made a personal promise to ambassadors from Egypt, Pakistan, and Cuba on the U.N. change issue that was undermined by America’s ambassador, John Bolton. “My hope is that when the vote is taken,” he told the Council on Foreign Relations, “the other members will outvote the Unites States.” The story, as Mr. Carter recalled, began with a recent dinner for 17 he attended in New York, where the guests included the president of the U.N. General Assembly, Jan Eliasson; an unidentified American representative, and other U.N. ambassadors from “powerful” countries at Turtle Bay, of which he mentioned only three: Cuba, Egypt, and Pakistan. The topic was the ongoing negotiations on an attempt to replace the widely discredited Geneva-based Human Rights Commission with a more accountable Human Rights Council.

“One of the things I assured them of was that the United States was not going to dominate all the other nations of the world in the Human Rights Council,” Mr. Carter said. However, on the next day, Mr. Carter said, Mr. Bolton publicly “demanded” that the five permanent members of the Security Council will have permanent seats on the new council as well, “which subverted exactly what I have promised them,” Mr. Carter said.

There goes Carter again sticking his nose in where it don’t belong in some vain hope of building some kind of legacy after his own horrible Presidency. He has even rubbed elbows with some of Latin America’s worst dictators Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez all in an effort to undermine the Bush Administration’s policies.

However, Carter’s recent actions in undermining the Bush Administration is nothing new. He is actually an equal opportunity underminer because he even did all he could to undermine Presidential policy set forth by probably the most popular living Democrat, former President Bill Clinton. Yes, Carter undermined Clinton in regards to the established White House policy on dealing with North Korea. Don’t remember? Well, let me give you a quick history lesson.

In the spring of 1994, North Korea began removing nuclear fuel rods that produce plutonium from their Yongbyon nuclear facility without IAEA inspectors present to verify the intent of the fuel rod removal. The CIA feared that the North Koreans had in fact gained enough plutonium from the fuel rods to produce two nuclear bombs and would be able to make more if they continue to gain more plutonium from the fuel rods. This is what initially began the 1994 North Korean nuclear crisis that brought northeast Asia to the brink of war.

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