Ah voted for Jimmah!
Yup, I was a Carter enthusiast. I voted for him. He was an engineer. A problem solver. A rational thinker. A person of good character. And yes, a disaster as president.
The WSJ article you cite is a good read and lest we "axis of evil" rhetoric supporters get too carried away...
"Niebuhr's pregnant warning:
"The final enigma of history is therefore not how the righteous will gain victory over the unrighteous, but how the evil in every good and the unrighteousness of the righteous is to be overcome."
-p