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Jimmy Carter

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

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Jimmy Carter is saying that a country cannot truly promote peace if it is also the main provider of weapons used in conflicts. This means that supporting peace and selling arms are contradictory actions that cannot happen at the same time.

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