Back in the Clinton days I used to get really pissed at Jimmy Carter for stickng his nose into foreign policy stuff. Really pissed. 
But in Cuba this week Carter is making the Bush administration look like idiots and they really have only themselves to blame.
John Bolton’s charge that Cuba has an offensive bioweapons program was clearly intended both to embarrass Carter and to minimize any good press Castro might get from Carter’s feel-good visit.
But Carter has pretty effectively turned the tables on them. Obviously his personal inspection of a biotechnology facility means nothing. But you can’t say the same for what he says he was told in his pre-visit State Department and CIA briefing. Carter claims he asked and was told the US had no evidence such a program existed. And now the former president has said so publicly.
Castro may not deserve good press. But he sure is getting it. And John Bolton looks like a mendacious, reckless ideologue who’s happy to squander American anti-WMD credibility on the dopey sideshow of anti-Castro foolery.
