Jimmy Carter: “Many of our neighbors in Central America and the Caribbean are in crisis—crisis marked by economic problems, terrorism…”

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

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…

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

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.