Nelson Mandela: The United States of America is a Threat to World Peace

Newsweek.com ^ | 9/10/02 | Interview conducted by Tom Masland

[The PeteMan]

Mass..LOL!! Great line!!

" Nelson Mandela, 84, may be the world’s 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."

and

GO PATS!

[ladyinred]

And to think it was Americans who protested and pressured and ultimately got Mandela released.

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.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

The Snooseweek interview is improperly headlined - the headline should read "NELSON MANDELA IS A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE."

Mandela is out of the same cloth as Arafat and Bin Laden - each a terrorist in his own right, each willing that others should die for their cause, and each too cowardly to put their own life on the line.

They are each equally a threat to world peace, each from the far left of Facism (Nazism) and Communism, and each get their jollies by promoting ethnic division.

Bin Laden was born into wealth, and Mandela and Arafat have amassed well hidden wealth - each claim to be on the side of their respective ethnic havenots.

Any who want to add to the analogy are invited to do so.

[nutmeg]

Eff Yu, Nelson!

[Mr. Mojo]

Too bad the socialist Mandela isn't still rotting in prison; the world would be a far better place. South Africa was sure a better place back then.....

[griffin]

So it is the 'ol white-black thing.....sheesh. Israel is white and the Iraqis are black (inferred)?? But Colon Powell is ok...he's black. LOL!! Thought they were all semites (Israelis and Iraqis)...oh well. Ain't the first time commies refused to let the truth get in the way.

[carlo3b]

Birds of a feather
Huggiepoo with Arafat
Palziewalzie with Mugabe
Loviedovie with Gaddafi
Castaway with Castro
Clinging to Clinton
I had a Dream

[Shermy]

Remember when he came out early for Bush and the WOT, then was "corrected" by others back home? Definitely bought out by Islamist money - a very good buy on their part. However, his propaganda is old-commie stuff that is way out of date. Back in the USSR!

[MassMinuteman]

I enjoyed watching Kordell trip over his skirt last night... GO PATS!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

shut up, prag!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

GO PATS GO!

(who knows we might even win it again!)

[Shermy]

"Unqualified support of the Shah of Iran led directly to the Islamic revolution of 1979." No, we told him to go. The Islamics took over later.

And he quotes Scott Ritter!!!

[SteelTrap]

Ok, HoustonCurmudgeon. What happened during that year? How were your political views recieved? Give up the details.

[Michael2001]

And what a great country South Africa turned into after Mandela took over (sarcasm)

[DoctorMichael]

Hey Nelson...................F off.

[NormsRevenge]

He spent 28 years in Solitary. Me thinks his mind goes to mush occasionally. He never was an America lover as I recall.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Ok, HoustonCurmudgeon. What happened during that year? How were your political views recieved? Give up the details.

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 don’t 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 Zulu’s 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 Zulu’s would kill Mandela who is a prince of the Xosha’s 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.”

[jragan2001]

Not exactly an extreme statement on your part since
even Walter Williams himself said, while subbing for
Limbaugh once, that many black South Africans acutally
preferred living under apartheid since job opportunities
were much better.