Jimmy Carter, fresh from his meetings with Hamas in April, gave Israel another poke in the eye last weekend, when he publicly stated the number of Israeli nuclear weapons, thereby breaking an unwritten code of silence that has been maintained by U.S. statesmen and diplomats for over 25 years concerning Israel’s nuclear capability. Not satisfied with causing problems for a close ally, Carter then claimed that the United States should talk directly to Iran and persuade the Iranian regime to drop its nuclear ambitions. Of course! Why didn’t we think of that? Carter said, “The United States must let Iran know that we want to give them fuel and everything they need for a non-military nuclear program. We’ve got to resume trading to show Iran we are friends.” Last time I checked, our Iranian “friends” were arming, training and funding the jihadis in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.