Jimmy Carter's new book

Just caught some of an interview with former President Jimmy Carter on C-SPAN2's Book TV in which he discusses his new book, Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis.

He talked about the war on Iraq, criticized the Bush Administration and more, as he also related to The Christian Science Monitor recently:

Among his charges: Members of the Bush team "decided to go to war against Iraq long before George Bush was elected." Now that the United States is on the ground in Iraq, Mr. Carter said it would be "a very serious mistake preemptively to withdraw." But the Bush administration's decision to invade to prevent any future act of aggression from Saddam Hussein's Iraq came in for a scathing reproach. "The attitude of going to war against a relatively defenseless country in order to prevent violence in the world is a complete fallacy," Carter said.

The book also says religious fundamentalism is putting the nation at risk, according to Newsday:

In a new book, "Our Endangered Values," he lashes out at a religiously based "fundamentalism" in the Bush administration and in the Republican Party and says it is putting the country at risk.

This looks like the kind of book Southern progressives need to read. It may help them get over worrying about talking about religion when they're trying to connect with people and lead.