My friend Steve Hayward is the author of The Age of Reagan, 1964-1980: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order and of The Real Jimmy Carter. I have looked forward to Steve’s essay/review of Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The new issue of Azure gives it to us in “The other J.C.” The whole review is mandatory reading. In one particularly interesting passage, Steve considers Carter’s self-confessed “poorly worded” statement that the Palestenians should “make it clear that they will end the suicide bombings and other acts of terrorism when international laws and the ultimate goals of the Roadmap for Peace are accepted by Israel” (emphasis added). Steve considers whether Carter’s plea of verbal imprecision is credible:
Carter has a long habit of engaging in what was once described as
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