I’m no fan of Jimmy Carter. I think he’s a bitter old fool who never got over the ass-whipping Ronald Reagan gave him in 1980. I think he’s dangerous in some of his free-lance diplomacy. However, this case should be thrown out of court. It is a very, very dangerous precedent. People write all kinds of outrageous things in books. Unless Carter libeled a specific person—and that is a pretty high standard—he should not be sued even for lying at a general level about the so-called “Peace Process.” This will open up a Pandora’s Box of lawsuits against a lot of authors if it goes forward.
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