The arrogance of Jimmuh Carter knows no bounds : America is no better off now than it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, says former President Jimmy Carter. From national politics to relationships with other nations, there is a lot of room for improvement. “We had almost complete harmony with every nation on Earth,” the Nobel Peace Prize winner said of his administration. “We not only preserved peace for our country, we never went to war. We never dropped a bomb. We never fired a missile.” And because we never dropped a bomb or fired a missile we had 52 Americans held in captivity in Iran for 444 days.