I didn't know this:

When voters in Zimbabwe, the former Rhodesia, elected a black Methodist bishop, Abel Muzorewa, the Carter Administration would not lift the sanctions in place to protest colonial rule that served as a barrier to U. S. trade and investment in the African nation. When the sanctions forced a second election, and voters chose Mugabe as their head of state (mostly, as the Freedom House report on the balloting indicates, at gunpoint). The Carter Administration not only lifted sanctions but gifted the new prime minister millions in U. S. aid.

US President Jimmy Carter refused to certify the election of a black Christian bishop as valid because a Marxist, Soviet-backed terrorist group wasn't on the ballot! So he (and Thatcher, amazingly) pressured for another election and got our wonderful Mugabe into office, who then became dictator-for-life.

Gosh, that's just sooo Jimmy Carter.

Why is it that when we look at any of today's largest crises we find Jimmy Carter played a crucial role? Does this guy ever look back with regret?

No, he's busy moralizing about the inherant evils of those who disagree with him, and sucking up to a new generation of terrorists and dictators.

Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, and despite the group's militant history, there is a chance the soon-to-be Palestinian leaders could turn away from violence, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday.

Meanwhile, under the rule of a terrorist Carter formerly "recognized" and invited to the White House...

Zimbabwe's inflation has hit a record high of 782%, the country's Central Statistics Office announced on Friday.

On a month-by-month basis, the consumer price index went up by 27.5%, compared with 18.6% in January....

Earlier this month, Zimbabwe's main milling organisation said the country had only two weeks of wheat supply left, while citizens were facing soaring bread prices. [source]