Jimmy Carter: “Maintaining a strong defense has been a primary objective of this administration.”

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.

But inside Palestine, outside of Israel, where the Israelis occupying forces are there, the persecution and deprivation of the Palestinians is horrendous.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.