Jimmy Carter: “Military readiness may be the best guarantee that military force need never be used.”

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 fear for our 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…