Jimmy Carter: “I personally don't think that frequent playing of the National Anthem downplays its importance.”

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

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

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.

But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…