Last week,we told how John Carter observed a fierce battle between the green Martians and a race of red, human-like creatures.

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That might be one reason why former and sitting governors--like Carter, Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush--have found success.

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Yet Jones would not be pressed on whether it was someone elsewhere within the region's structure who had money and influence to bring someone like Carter in.

BBC: Jones laughs at links to Carter

Like Carter before him, Obama may succeed for a time in evading public scrutiny for his foreign-policy failures because the public will be too concerned with his domestic failures to notice them.

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