Jimmy Carter: “We've been through many months of discussion and debate about the two treaties that the Senate has considered.”

I don't agree with that at all.

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…

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.