The problem is not that Jimmy Carter broke the code of ex-presidential omerta and said what he meant. The problem is that he recanted what is perfectly obvious to all. The next occupant of the office is going to have devote a significant portion of their term to trying to clean up Junior's doodypants, hopefully without getting their hands too stanky.
Carter's own foreign policy legacy is obviously nothing to write home about either, and perhaps that's part of why he started tiptoeing away from his remarks almost immediately. But he's right about this disastrous administration nonetheless, and when he backpedals he plays right into their hostile jabs at his supposedly diminished relevance. It's too bad, because the end result is that he'd have been better off not even bringing it up if he wasn't going to stand behind it.
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