Sometimes, Senator, it’s better to just not say anything.
“Sometimes, Senator, it’s better to just not say anything.”
Exactly
Thank you. My feelings, exactly.
MANDELA DEFENDED GADHAFI, CASTRO, ARAFAT... OPPRESSORS AND GENOCIDES
THE MYTHS AND REALITIES OF NELSON MANDELA
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/12/06/the-myths-and-realities-of-nelson-mandela/
By: DSWright Friday December 6, 2013
TED KOPPEL INTERVIEW NELSON MANDELA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMT36t6BADc&feature=player_embedded
(Mandela defends his relationship with Yasser Arafat, Omar Gaddafi, and Fidel Castro)
With the passing of Nelson Mandela have come glowing portraits of a man dedicated to peaceful reconciliation. But that is only part of the story.
Before Mandela advocated truth and reconciliation he was not a pacifist. He was not like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. He did not value non-violence for its own sake. He saw violence as a tool to be used or discarded pending the layout of the political battlefield.
Nelson Mandela was never a pacifist. When the Ghandi route of non-violent civil disobedience brought only violence from the state, Mandela declared “The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices – submit or fight.That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom”
He played a leading role in setting up the ANC’s guerrilla wing, and traveled abroad to gather support, even undergoing guerrilla training himself in Algeria, from the commanders of the FLN who had recently ejected the French colonials.