Carter continues to be excoriated by the State department and the neocons for meeting with Hamas, the party that won the elections in Palestine. They're "terrorists," we're told, and the US government does not dirty its skirts by meeting with such people. Say, is this the same US government that palled around with Joe Stalin, the genocidal maniac? That happily held talks with Mao, Chou, and other mass-murdering worthies? No? Oh, good.