Posted on 09/10/2002 4:05:41 PM PDT by GeneD
...The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken. Unqualified support of the Shah of Iran led directly to the Islamic revolution of 1979. Then the United States chose to arm and finance the [Islamic] mujahedin in Afghanistan instead of supporting and encouraging the moderate wing of the government of Afghanistan. That is what led to the Taliban in Afghanistan. But the most catastrophic action of the United States was to sabotage the decision that was painstakingly stitched together by the United Nations regarding the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms....
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" Nelson Mandela, 84, may be the worlds most respected statesman. This is the most pathetic sentence I have ever read. I wouldn't even wipe my ass with Newsweek. Not even if it had Masland on the cover."
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GO PATS!
Have you noticed that you can never give his type enough? They always want more and more and more, and then bite the hand that feeds them.
(who knows we might even win it again!)
And he quotes Scott Ritter!!!
I had one of the best years of my life getting to see much of sub-Sahara Africa and I loved the place. If you could ignore the politics, South Africa is the finest place I have ever been outside the United States (God Bless her) and Switzerland. As to the politics it was the late 80's and Mandela was out of prison but still under house arrest, so things were very calm. I asked a lot of questions but tried to keep my mouth shut about my positions. I dont think Americans should try to push their ideas while a guest in a foreign country.
I did get to meet several members of the Afrikaner (Boers) government, some high ranking Zulus from Natal, and one night I had dinner with the man running for President (English) on the liberal party ticket. I have neither the words nor the typing skills to explain all I think and remember about these fine people so I will list only a few:
1) Americans had no idea what they were doing with sanctions.
2) I always thought the Zulus would kill Mandela who is a prince of the Xoshas and a mortal enemy of the Zulu tribe.
3)I once asked my Zulu housekeeper how she would determine how to vote if she ever won the right to do so. Her answer showed me how very wrong we are to push democracy on people who have no understanding, or appreciation of the concept. She said oh I would have no problem doing the right thing I would just vote how my chief told me to.
4) I never believed the Afrikaners would give the county over to the majority. Unlike Rhodesia where the whites were only 3% they were more than 30% in South Africa. The problem was that half the whites (English speakers) really thought they could work with the majority.
5) The REAL PROBLEM was that the ruling class was white. They ran the place far better than ANY black tribe runs whatever African country they are in. They had been there 400 years, as long as we have been here and most of the black tribes came to the area AFTER the whites. If the very same government had been black no one would have cared!
6) One Afrikaner told me we would not have a problem if we had done to the blacks what you did to the Indians.
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