- He invited Robert Mugabe to the White House in 1980 and fully supported this dictator's rise to power in Rhodesia
- The Iran hostage crisis occurred under Jimmy Carter's watch
- Jimmy Carter went to North Korea and brokered a deal with Kim Jung Il that was supposed to keep that rogue state from attaining nuclear weapons. Jimmy's "negotiation" called for the United States to provide the North Koreans with $4 billion worth of light water reactors and $100 million in oil in exchange for a promise not to develop weapons plus assurances that inspectors would be allowed in. On Aug. 28, 2003 North Korea announced that it possessed nuclear weapons.
- He failed to protect the Shah and to his fault the radical Muslim cleric Ayatollah Khomeini rose to power
- He's failed Operation Eagle Claw which caused the deaths of eight American servicemen.
- None of which were TRANSPARENT situations