>Because he used his common sense and kept the world position of the U.S. in his mind.
>Now the U.S. stands alone, power-wise and the noe-cons have full control and are using the opportunity to do what they've always wanted, which is to use that power to CONTROL whatever they want.

Then I'm still not understanding the original point, that somehow President Carter not doing anything about the attack on our embassy in Iran was different than the attack on our embassy in Beirut.

>War should be anachronistic at this point in the development of humanity, at the very least for the more "developed" countries.

The way the world should be and the way it is are two very different things. Also, all you need is one person/group/country to not share that view and it all goes out the window.