Apparently telling this guy to do bad things to himself warrants a 12 hour ban, but his behaviour doesn't warrant one.

I do have to concede that Jimmy did some genuinely good humanitarian work after his time in office. It doesn't absolve him of his wrongdoings but it puts him a hell of a lot higher up than Bill or Barack.

*March 1, 1977, if it's not clear we are still talking about 1977.

Instead, Carter ramped up aid with funding and weapons to the Indonesian regime, brazenly flaunting the human rights requirements imposed on American aid. FAIR noted in a 1994 article that “by the time Carter left office, about 200,000 people had been killed” in East Timor.

On March 1, 95 members of the Australian Parliament sent a letter to Carter claiming the Indonesian troops were carrying out “atrocities” and asking the American President “to comment publicly on the situation in East Timor.” The response was crickets.

Residents of occupied areas were subjected to massive re-education campaigns. The death toll from violence by Indonesian forces, malnutrition, and disease quickly climbed into the tens of thousands. The killing reached its peak in 1977.

In late 1975, Kissinger and Ford gave the green light to Suharto to invade neighboring East Timor. After occupying the capital city Dili, Indonesian troops systematically rooted out resistance by the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (FRETILIN) and the civilian population.

In 1980 he approved an operation to crush a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, S. Korea against the US-backed military dictatorship. S. Korean military forces killed at least 600 people and injured over 4,000. They beat people with clubs, stabbed, & mutilate them with US supplied weapons.

His administration caused the global economic conditions that lead to the debt crisises of the global South in the 80s. The policies of his administration set the precedent for military involvement in and heavily contributed to the economic conditions of the middle East, leading to the war on terror

He supported Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge maintaining a UN seat. He also paved the way for the neoliberal reforms of Reagan in the 80s by doing significant deregulation of key industry like transport, telecommunications, banking, and aviation.