Jimmy Carter: “Thank you very much. It's a very good day for our country.”

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…

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.

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

I hope that this book, which is -- has a provocative title, but I don't consider provocative to be a bad word.