'How To Not Go To War' - Jimmy Carter Explains Foreign Diplomacy 101

During his ten-year service in the US Navy as an engineer and officer, Carter attended graduate school, majoring in reactor technology and nuclear physics.

In 1952, he risked his life to dismantle a nuclear reactor when he was ordered to lead the clean up of a nuclear accident caused by melted fuel rods at Canada’s Chalk River Laboratories.

As US President from 1976 to 1980, Carter established an energy policy that cut US oil imports by half. (Reagan dismantled most of Carter's policies.)

Aside from the eight people who were killed during a hostage rescue mission during the Iranian Revolution, no American or any other national was killed under the banner of an American war.

Considering that millions of people lost their lives in the wars before and after Carter’s presidency – the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq War and the War in Afghanistan – the fact that the Carter administration did not wage war on any country makes it unique in American history.





In 2013, journalist Mayumi Yoshinari with the Japanese literary magazine, Chuo-Koron, conducted an interview with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. The extensive interview took place in Dublin, Ireland during a meeting of The Elders.



Interview can be read here:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/19/1413558/-A-Warless-President-Jimmy-Carter-Speaks-Out-On-WikiLeaks-Religion-The-Reluctancy-To-Go-To-War#


One quote in the interview: "I did not deplore the WikiLeaks revelations"