September 17, 2002

Mandela Misses Mark

Nelson Mandela in Newsweek casts the US as a bungler of it's foreign policy. While Mr. Mandela has earned a great deal of credit for his role in eliminating apartheid in South Africa, he misses the mark as a world class statesman. While America may have incomplete understanding of the Arab world, we understand terrorist actions. Mandela is wrong. Perhaps because of the evils of apartheid, he advocated actions that some would call terrorist.

Sorry, Nelson, you're on the wrong side of this debate. Meanwhile, your county is ravished by AIDS. Is that the West's fault too?

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