Ex-President Carter wants sanctions weakened on terrorist groups

The Hill ^ | June 20, 2013 | Julian Pecquet

[maggief]

Former President Jimmy Carter is spearheading an effort to convince the U.S. to weaken sanctions on terrorist groups so that peace organizations can legally work with them.

In a petition to Secretary of State John Kerry delivered Thursday, Carter and other foreign policy experts ask Kerry to exempt peace groups from policies that make it a crime to offer negotiation training and humanitarian law classes to terror groups.

“The Secretary of State can, and should, exempt peacebuilding activities from this counterproductive application of the law,” says the petition. “Doing so would open the door for professional peacebuilders to fully engage in helping to end armed conflicts and suffering around the world, while making the U.S. safer.”

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The petition is signed by more than two dozen groups and former officials, including Mercy Corps; Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development under President George W. Bush; retired Ambassador Thomas Pickering; and Anne-Marie Slaughter, the Director of Policy Planning at the State Department from 2009-2011.

[duckman]

Jimmah, don’t you get it, the muzzie nut jobs want us all dead.

[Vaquero]

Still screwing things up after all these years....

[skeeter]

We have Breitbart for 43 years.

Meanwhile this puts - this toxic buffoon - goes on and on.

[skeeter]

Puts=putz

[TADSLOS]

....Still scared s*#tless of rabbits.

[Puppage]

President Carter......the guy who went to war with 6 helicopters.

'Nuff said.

[rocksblues]

It is amazing that he got to be this old and still doesn’t have any common sense.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Still crazy
After all these years
Oooooooh
Still crazy
After all these years...

[Netz]

Carter's brain should be donated to medical science either now or after he passes away so that modern medicine can figure out, how a relatively young man in the mid-1970’s already showed signs of the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease which only grew worse with age and still, some people paid attention to what he had to say...

In a quirk of history, another (current) President managed to outdo him in sheer naivete, foolish policies and idiocy.

[no-to-illegals]

Heard it was a rumor but must be ... jimmi took himself out of the peanut business and thinks raising chickens is a better alternative.

[kenmcg]

@$$holes don’t change their stripes.

[verga]

“Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin." Lillian Carter.

More true today than ever before.

[vette6387]

Oh when, just when is this worthless POS going to take a dirt nap?

[realcleanguy]

Jimmy Carter: “Love your enemies and hate your friends and family”

[Innovative]

“The organization told The Hill that in the past efforts to build bridges with the Taliban in Afghanistan, Hamas in the Palestinian territories and leftist guerillas in Colombia have all been stymied.”

My heart bleeds...

[Old Grumpy]

Oh, Lord, here we go again. That old buzzard needs to just sit in front of a window in a rocking chair and leave the rest of the world alone.

[shalom aleichem]

Well, can’t he just sign an ex-executive order or sumpin?

[kinsman redeemer]

Maybe Jim-bob should run for office. Otherwise, I don’t care what he “wants”.

[mom.mom]

Jimmy! You don’t need to have this decriminalized. Just take it upon yourself - go to the most violent terrorist camp and do a sensativity training class. Just do it. You da man.