It is MY opinion that Jimmy Carter wants very much to continue playing a role in diplomacy. He does this through the Carter Foundation (who, I understand, often supervise elections in other countries to ensure fairness). But while he has offered multiple time--to Clinton (I think), Obama, and now Trump--he never gets called upon.He probably has thought about diplomacy more than any two of them combined. For all the bad that might be said about Carter, he did two things for which I am thankful:1) Like Trump, who felt that bombing Iran would not be proportionate to them taking out a drone, so, too, Carter refused to go to war with Iran when they illegally held those hostages. In MY mind, he had to realize that thousands dead (perhaps many more than that--on our side and theirs) was disproportionate. 2). He is the ONLY president who has made significant headway toward peace in the Middle East, by facilitating peace talks between Israel and Egypt. Nothing's perfect, but it's still far better than anything else anyone has done. (At the same time, I liked the fact that Trump didn't care what anyone else thought about moving the embassy to Jerusalem. Now if we can just get him to do that with Taiwan!).Jimmy Carter is influential in parts of the world. Just a few weeks ago, he spoke kindly of Trump because of the phone call he received from the president when Carter was in the hospital. But politics always finds its way back--and now he is playing that game.It might be he hopes to be seen as relevant to a Democrat Party that has largely left behind the Democrats of a former time--and all for the worst.