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		<title>2014: A Bad Year for the Left?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Dec 2013 05:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you thought 2013 was awful for leftists, just wait till the new year.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/obama8.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214018" alt="obama8" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/obama8-450x252.jpg" width="315" height="176" /></a>Most political indicators point to a terrible 2014 for American leftism amidst an auspicious resurgence of conservatism throughout the nation.</p>
<p>As Americans continue to suffer in the weak Obama-era economy and as their anxiety over President Obama&#8217;s hated health care program grows, an electoral tsunami appears to be in the offing.</p>
<p>Americans have never bought into President Obama&#8217;s contention that income inequality was what he called &#8220;the defining challenge of our time.&#8221; The AP-Times Square New Year’s Eve Poll conducted by GfK <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/nicolebailey/2013/12/26/poll-obamacare-was-2013-top-issue-tea-party-loses-support-2014-will-be-better-n1768651?utm_source=thdailypm&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl_pm">shows</a> under 1 percent considered that issue the most important news story of 2013. Topping the list of issues was the implementation of Obamacare which was deemed the number one issue in 2013 by 26 percent of respondents. The next-highest ranked issues were identified as the &#8220;death of Nelson Mandela&#8221; and the &#8220;federal government’s budget troubles: sequestration, the fiscal cliff and the government shutdown,&#8221; both weighing in at a mere 8 percent each.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s approval ratings continue to drop and Americans now consider big, overweening government to be the biggest threat to the nation. An astounding 72 percent of Gallup respondents now <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/18/gallup-poll-72-percent-believe-big-government-is-usa-greatest-threat/">believe</a> that big government poses a greater threat to the U.S. than big business or big labor, a record high since Gallup started asking the question almost a half century ago. &#8220;(The findings) may be partly a reaction to an administration that favors the use of government to solve problems,&#8221; the Gallup organization said in a quaint understatement.</p>
<p>Democratic strategists who say that the public is warming up to Obama and Obamacare  are in denial. Millions of Americans, largely in the individual marketplace, have lost their health insurance because of the misnamed Affordable Care Act. Next year tens of millions of Americans will lose their employer-sponsored health coverage as Obamacare works its mischief on the nation&#8217;s health care system. The continuing catastrophe that is Obamacare will be the political gift that keeps on giving all the way to the midterm congressional elections in November. (To boot, a slew of new Obamacare taxes <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/25/new-obamacare-fees-coming-in-2014/">takes effect</a> in days.)</p>
<p>Republicans are <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/194009-poll-gop-has-edge-for-2014-midterms">pummeling</a> Democrats in CNN&#8217;s generic congressional ballot by 49 percent to 44 percent after Obamacare implementation began on Oct. 1. As <i>The Hill</i> newspaper observes,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s a huge 13-point swing from October, when Democrats had the edge following the government shutdown. At that point, Democrats were up by 50 percent to 42 percent on a generic ballot test. The new numbers are the latest bad polling news for Democrats, indicating the GOP has a chance to pick up House seats and win control of the Senate.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>With critical midterm elections now less than a year away, and assuming that present trends will continue, Republicans seem certain to take over Congress. Republicans are poised to retain majority control of the House of Representatives and are also on-track to easily take over the Senate. The only question is how big the GOP Senate majority will be.</p>
<p>This does not, however, mean that 2014 will be the year in which the leftist project is finally discredited, as some high-profile conservative pundits gripped by an irrational triumphalism have predicted in recent weeks. Obamacare&#8217;s failures will not somehow finish off progressivism. The programs and fallout from the abysmal failures known as the New Deal and the Great Society are still with us and yet a large segment of the population continues to believe that redistributionism works. When and if Obamacare collapses, leftists will simply start over again, this time pressing for the single-payer universal health care system that they&#8217;ve always wanted.</p>
<p>Of course, Republicans could still snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.</p>
<p>For example, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) continue to send out signals that they intend to capitulate to the open-borders lobby next year. Boehner and McConnell support a politically unpopular amnesty for potentially tens of millions of illegal aliens, which is the key policy component of so-called comprehensive immigration reform.</p>
<p>They do so in the mistaken belief that flooding the labor market and rewarding illegal behavior will somehow make left-leaning voters and immigrants on a path to citizenship fans of the Grand Old Party.</p>
<p>Passing amnesty legislation would seriously undermine conservative grassroots support for Republican candidates.</p>
<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean the congressional GOP won&#8217;t do it.</p>
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		<title>The Direction of Health Care if ObamaCare Persists &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Frontpagemag.com]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get ready for the lines at the DMV.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Obama-Sebelius.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212582" alt="Obama-Sebelius" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Obama-Sebelius.jpg" width="385" height="285" /></a>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong>, <strong>Monty Morton</strong> and <strong>Dwight Schultz</strong>.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>The Direction of Health Care if ObamaCare Persists</em>. The dialogue occurred in <strong>Part II</strong> and examined the damage that is in store to Americans&#8217; healthcare if Obama gets his way. The segment also shed light on: <em>Does a $17 Trillion Debt Really Matter? </em></p>
<p>In <strong>Part I</strong>, the Gang shed light on <em>Mandela and Double Standards</em> (see Daniel Greenfield&#8217;s article <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-mandela-myth/">The Mandela Myth</a>). The episode also focused on &#8220;<em>Elian Gonzalez Leaves Cuba For First Time</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Obama&#8217;s Handshake with Raul Castro</em>,&#8221; and much, much more.</p>
<p>See both parts of the two-part series below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part II:</strong></p>
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<p><b>To watch previous <i>Glazov Gang</i> episodes, </b><a href="http://jamieglazov.com/"><b>Click here</b></a><b>.</b></p>
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		<title>The Handshake Heard &#8216;Round the World</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama lends legitimacy to yet another tyranny. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/or.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212965" alt="or" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/or-450x253.jpg" width="315" height="177" /></a>President Obama&#8217;s distressing rejection of American exceptionalism was on display for the whole world to see yesterday when he shamed his country by lowering himself to shake the blood-stained hand of Cuba&#8217;s Communist dictator.</p>
<p>In a brief but cordial encounter in a funeral receiving line at the southern tip of the African continent, Obama shook the hand of Cuba&#8217;s octogenarian tyrant, President Raul Castro, granting a kind of legitimacy to the <i>caudillo</i> who leads America&#8217;s Cold War enemy 90 miles from the Florida coast. In so doing Obama demonstrated his weakness and emboldened America&#8217;s enemies.</p>
<p>The occasion was a memorial service in South Africa for that country&#8217;s former president, Nelson Mandela, a Communist terrorist who, like Obama&#8217;s close personal friend Bill Ayers, used explosives to express himself politically.</p>
<p>Mandela, who died last week at age 95 long after serving a quarter-century in prison and helping to slay apartheid, has a few things in common with Obama.</p>
<p>Mandela, who routinely denounced the United States and Israel, set in motion the transformation of his once-prosperous nation into the community organizer&#8217;s paradise that is modern South Africa, complete with mob rule, mob justice, racial tension, and epidemic levels of violence. Mandela&#8217;s Marxist colleagues are continuing his work, community organizing that nation into Third World kleptocracy status.</p>
<p>Obama conspicuously ordered American flags flown at half-staff throughout the U.S. in honor of Mandela, an unusual tribute for the United States to afford a non-American, and in this case, a former foreign head of state. It is all part of Obama&#8217;s racial presidency in which he plays off racial and ethnic groups against each other, no matter what lasting harm it does to society. The flag-lowering is better treatment than he gave the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a far more consequential world leader whom he snubbed by skipping her funeral.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve known for a long time that Obama is most at ease when he&#8217;s hanging out with thugs, terrorists, murderous anti-American despots, and anti-Semites. He carefully avoids harsh language when describing Iran&#8217;s barely concealed nuclear weapons program that his administration is allowing to go forward. A relativist and multiculturalist, Obama respects the former Persia&#8217;s so-called right to self-determination and nuclear arms even though the theocratic regime persecutes religious dissenters, puts gays to death, and almost daily promises to vaporize U.S. ally Israel.</p>
<p>Communist Cuba doesn&#8217;t have an evil system in Obama&#8217;s view. The Communists who have been terrorizing and enslaving the Cuban people are merely misunderstood. Americans, especially with their embrace of imperialism and colonialism, supposedly have no moral standing to criticize what the Castro brothers have built.</p>
<p>Ascertaining whether Obama actually bowed before Castro in reaching for his hand is a subjective exercise. The president often leans forward when greeting people. In order to be at eye-level and look in the face of Castro, who is much shorter than Obama, the president had to move the upper portion of his body simultaneously forward and downward.</p>
<p>Perhaps this has something to do with why MSNBC&#8217;s slogan is &#8220;lean forward.&#8221; After all, the cable news network full-throatedly supports Obama&#8217;s policies which are aimed at humbling America and punishing it for its greatness.</p>
<p>As president, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/06/20/obama-bowed-eight-times-president/">has long had</a> a disturbing habit of bowing before foreign heads of state, as Keith Koffler observes. He has bowed before Communist Chinese President Hu Jintao, Saudi King Abdullah, Queen Elizabeth II, Japanese Emperor Akihito, and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko.</p>
<p>&#8220;American presidents, who have been put in charge of a democratic nation that specifically broke from royalty, particularly should not bow to kings and queens,&#8221; Koffler writes. &#8220;Especially ones running repressive societies like Saudi Arabia. But on the very same day he bowed to Abdullah, he also bowed to Queen Elizabeth, chief of the monarchy that was our former Lord and Master.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama may as well have warmly slapped Castro on the back and given him an &#8220;attaboy!&#8221; for all the hard work he&#8217;s done over the years to achieve redistributionist nirvana on his decrepit island nation that has become a popular sex tourism destination in the de-developed world. We can only wonder how many death warrants for anti-Communist dissidents and freedom fighters Castro has signed with that hand or how many times he has used the fingers that touched Obama&#8217;s to pull the trigger of a rifle and execute an enemy of Cuba&#8217;s long-lived gangster regime.</p>
<p>Shaking Castro&#8217;s hand implies that the Cuban president is Obama&#8217;s equal, a legitimate world leader worthy of respect. This is consistent with our president&#8217;s worldview.</p>
<p>Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appropriately <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/12/10/mccain-compares-obama-castro-handshake-to-chamberlain-hitler/">upbraided</a> President Obama for the hit-and-run grip-and-grin, comparing the gesture to British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain&#8217;s infamous handshake with Adolf Hitler in the run-up to World War Two. That handshake symbolically gave Nazi Germany a green light to take over the Sudetenland and helped to clear the way for the Third Reich&#8217;s violent expansion across Europe.</p>
<p>&#8220;It gives Raul some propaganda to continue to prop up his dictatorial, brutal regime, that&#8217;s all,&#8221; McCain said.</p>
<p>Obama shouldn&#8217;t have done it, McCain asserted. &#8220;Why should you shake hands with somebody who&#8217;s keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what&#8217;s the point?&#8221;</p>
<p>McCain appeared to be referring to Jewish American Alan Gross who has been rotting in a Cuban jail since 2009. Gross is a political prisoner who was snagged for outreach to Cuba&#8217;s Jewish community.</p>
<p>Say what you will about his flakiness, but Americans can always count on President Obama to embarrass them on overseas trips. He routinely makes a mockery of the high office to which the American people have twice elected him.</p>
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		<title>A Mandela Moment in Jerusalem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Bedein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Palestinians dealt with the Mandela Institute's message of peace. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/jerusalem.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212943" alt="jerusalem" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/jerusalem.jpg" width="330" height="247" /></a>The death of Nelson Mandela at 95 provided pundits of the world with the opportunity to ponder the legacy of the South African leader of the campaign against Apartheid.</p>
<p>Very few people on earth earn their legacy in their lifetime.</p>
<p>It would seem that almost as soon as Nelson Mandela emerged from prison and was catapulted into a post Apartheid South African presidency, there were those who adapted Mandela&#8217;s gospel of peace and reconciliation to resolve other wars in the world.</p>
<p>And so it was in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>In 1994, in the early stages of the Middle East Oslo negotiation process, optimism and wishful thinking dominated the Jerusalem landscape.</p>
<p>Delegations descended on a land torn with war, wanting to hear messages of peace.</p>
<p>The newly formed Mandela Institute, named for the legacy of Nelson Mandela, was one one of those delegations that held a press conference across from my office at the Beit Agron Press Center in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>These former anti-apartheid activists had arrived on a mission: to teach both sides of the Middle East conflict how to live and respect the other in a time of peace.</p>
<p>That was their message in South Africa, where they repeated their theme in Jerusalem, quoting Abe Lincoln in the last days of the American Civil War: “<em>With malice toward none, with charity for all.”</em></p>
<p>The Mandela Institute Jerusalem press conference was packed.</p>
<p>Civil liberties groups mixed with religious and non-religious Jews who came there to hear and cheer the upbeat message of the Mandela Institute. The Black and White spokespeople appealed to receptive ears of the Israeli audience to “see the humanity in the Arab who was your enemy” ever so recently.</p>
<p>The Mandela people made it clear that this was the process that they were going through in South Africa, to break down walls between Blacks and Whites, after Apartheid.</p>
<p>I am only sorry that I do not find my notes from almost 20 years ago, so I cannot recite the names of the articulate spokespeople who expressed themselves so eloquently.</p>
<p>In the final moment of the Jerusalem press conference, the Mandela convener announced that they were taking a bus to Ramallah, to deliver the same message of peace, reconciliation, and understanding to the other side.</p>
<p>The Mandela Institute delegation announced they would hold a follow up press conference, two days hence, when they would return from Ramallah.</p>
<p>However, the follow up press conference never happened.</p>
<p>The Mandela people did return to Jerusalem, however, but they were not too interested in talking to the press about what happened.</p>
<p>Later at the American Colony Hotel in East Jerusalem, they did not hesitate to say what had happened. PLO chieftain Yasser Arafat had made the arrangement for a modest town meeting for the Mandela Institute. But when the Mandela devotees made their appeal for peace, recognition and understanding of Israelis, they were booed and jeered, and when they tried to deliver that message in an Arab school, the students chanted in unison that “the war is not over: we want the right of return!!”</p>
<p>The Mandela Institute had hit a raw nerve. And, as one delegation member described the scene, the Arabs pushed them back on the bus, yelling at them never to come back.</p>
<p>Twenty years have passed. The tenacity of the Arabs who run the Palestinian Authority under the premise and promise of the right of return, convey their daily message that the war against Israel is not over…while the vast majority of Israelis still ascribe to some hope of  peace in the future, however unrealistic it is.</p>
<p>The sequel to the story is that the Mandela Institute reconstituted itself as a permanent fixture in Ramallah, as an agency concerned for Arab convicts who sit in Israeli jails. The Mandela Institute no longer preaches respect and reconciliation of the other.</p>
<p>So much for a fleeting Mandela moment in Jerusalem.</p>
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		<title>Nelson Mandela and Ronald Reagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Steinberg]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few realize Reagan's role in bringing about change in South Africa.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/reg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212783" alt="reg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/reg-450x284.jpg" width="315" height="199" /></a>With the death of Nelson Mandela, the mythology continues that, under Ronald Reagan, the 1980s was the lost decade in dealing with South Africa. It&#8217;s the same old line &#8212; Reagan was insensitive to AIDS because he wasn&#8217;t gay. He was insensitive to racism because he wasn&#8217;t black. And he was not involved in policy, because he wasn&#8217;t very deep. All of that is just not true.</p>
<p>During the recent Bush Administration, I served on the board of the National Defense University (NDU) and came to know two of my colleagues &#8212; Chester Crocker and Edward Perkins. Chet, an academician who served on the National Security Council under Nixon, is an amiable and gracious gentleman and a scholar. A man of enormous good will, Chet served as Ronald Reagan&#8217;s Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs for the entire eight years. He was unjustly pilloried by Christopher Hitchens and others for crafting the allegedly &#8220;soft&#8221; U.S. policy of &#8220;constructive engagement&#8221; toward apartheid South Africa. In fact, the policy was strategic and allowed for Reagan&#8217;s philosophy, per his U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, of seeking change within authoritarian regimes as opposed to isolating totalitarian regimes like the Soviet Union, which required full confrontation. And, at that time during the Cold War, Nelson Mandela&#8217;s African National Congress was a Marxist, if not pro-Communist, organization, so prudence was required.</p>
<p>In 1986, Chet recommended to Secretary of State George Shultz the appointment of Ed Perkins to be U.S. Ambassador to South Africa. Secretary Shultz did not know Ed, but both were former Marines, and Ed, then U.S. Ambassador to Liberia, admired Shultz&#8217;s integrity and deliberative, scholarly approach. In his book <i>Mr. Ambassador</i>, Ed suggests that Pat Buchanan was successful in limiting the sanctions that resulted in President Reagan&#8217;s executive order that year. Pat, a Eurocentric, had quite another mindset on Africa and the Mideast. It would not be the first or the last time Pat was on the wrong side of an issue.</p>
<p>In his book, Ed says, quite simply, that neither George Shultz nor Ronald Reagan have been given credit for their determination to change apartheid in South Africa. Shultz told Ed, &#8220;No one has the right to ask you or any other black person to go down there.&#8221; Some thought the Afrikaners might try to assassinate a black ambassador. And &#8220;black leaders&#8221; here, he was told, would attack Ed as a sell-out to a &#8220;racist&#8221; president, and they did belittle the appointment.</p>
<p>Ed told Reagan&#8217;s personnel director that he was a career foreign service officer, not a Republican, but a registered independent. Ed did not get along with Reagan&#8217;s chief of staff, Don Regan, but that&#8217;s hardly surprising, since Regan was an arrogant Wall Street crony capitalist whose opposition to sanctions was probably rooted in corporate relationships. But when it came to Reagan himself, Ed and the President had immediate rapport. Ed recollects how informed Reagan was on Africa and also Reagan&#8217;s moral clarity. And, then, there was Ronald Reagan the man. President Reagan asked Ed personal questions about his upbringing, his wife, his family, and what he would do as ambassador. Then, he told Ed that he was, in effect, personally appointing him U.S. Ambassador to South Africa and, almost unheard of, giving him authorization to make American policy from the embassy. Ed recalls that in subsequent meetings during his ambassadorship, Reagan was very much always in control and thoroughly analytical and well engaged &#8212; hardly the detached caricature drawn by liberals.</p>
<p>The Congressional Black Caucus initially was hardly supportive of Ed, and the government-favored South African press predictably blasted the appointment. Jesse Jackson and other anti-Reagan &#8220;black leaders&#8221; tried to dissuade Ed Perkins from taking the job. But Ed became, in his words, &#8220;a change agent&#8221; from the moment he set foot in South Africa and in the first official private meeting with South Africa&#8217;s President P.W. Botha, who directly insulted him and indirectly insulted President Reagan. Later, when Botha reneged on an agreement to stop assassinating dissidents across the border, Reagan simply bypassed the State Department entirely and had Ed personally deliver to Botha a strong letter signed not by the Secretary of State but by Reagan himself that included vintage, authentic Reagan: &#8220;You have broken your word.&#8221;</p>
<p>There is a lot more to the story. But the bottom line is that President Reagan&#8217;s personal envoy made policy from the moment he refused to accept segregated housing for the black State Department employees. And he reached out to all groups, from rigid Afrikaners to black Marxist revolutionaries, while making clear the U.S. position was against apartheid and against violent change and for a market economy. And he directly challenged the nationalization plans of the Marxists, instructing them instead on the virtues of &#8220;cooperative capitalism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ed Perkins eventually was appointed by President George H.W. Bush as Ambassador to the U.N.  But his tenure was short-lived, as partisan Democrats around incoming President Bill Clinton saw the professional diplomat as &#8220;one of those Republicans,&#8221; and Ed, without even a courtesy call, was replaced by Madeline Albright. Embarrassed by the backlash, President Clinton eventually appointed Perkins as Ambassador to Australia.</p>
<p>Former Secretary of State Jim Baker suggests that Reagan probably regretted his veto of the tougher sanctions against South Africa.  Not so fast.  President Reagan&#8217;s priority in those years was not the downfall of the government in South Africa, but the downfall of the government in the Soviet Union. By selecting a black American to be ambassador, President Reagan sent a message. And by sending Ed Perkins, Reagan showed that his selection was not some politically correct symbol of diversity but the real deal. In his book, Ed Perkins makes it clear that he hardly admired Winnie Mandela. And, unlike many in the State Department and many progressives, including the current American president, Ed believes in American exceptionalism. In South Africa, he celebrated the U.S. Constitution and its genius of a democratic republic of limited, balanced powers.</p>
<p>There are many incidents that can be recounted during Ambassador Perkins&#8217; South African tour of duty.  At times, Ed even gave Embassy or consular sanctuary to political dissidents, just as President Reagan would have allowed in a Communist country. He turned away Ted Kennedy and Jesse Jackson when they wanted to exploit the situation. When challenged by the South African government, Ed Perkins declared that the dissidents were on sovereign territory. And when Botha (who, ironically, would later become part of Nelson Mandela&#8217;s government) and his hard-line emissaries repeatedly became belligerent, Ed Perkins replied with his ace-in-the-hole line &#8212; that he was acting on behalf of the President of the United States &#8212; Ronald Reagan.</p>
<p><em>Arnold Steinberg is a strategist, analyst and author, who has consulted in public policy, media, politics, and philanthropy.  He also is an expert in quantitative research (polls) and qualitative research (focus groups).</em></p>
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		<title>Nelson Mandela: The Untold Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some inconvenient facts.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nelson-mandela.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212657" alt="nelson-mandela" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nelson-mandela-450x343.jpg" width="315" height="240" /></a>Given that the entire planet seems to be of one voice in both mourning the loss of Nelson Mandela and celebrating his life, most will find it inconceivable that anyone would think to so much as suggest that Mandela was anything less than the saint that his admirers are working tirelessly to depict him as.</p>
<p>But truth is truth and Mandela was no saint.</p>
<p>Mandela was a proponent of “democratic socialism” who, along with the South African Communist Party, unleashed a torrent of violence against his political opponents that included the bombing of government sites. He was convicted of “sabotage” and attempting to overthrow the government—charges to which he openly confessed at his trial.  And in spite of having been released from prison in 1990 after serving 27 years and eventually becoming South Africa’s first black president, he remained on the United States Terror Watch list until as recently as 2008.  The late Margaret Thatcher characterized Mandela’s African National Congress as a “typical terrorist organization.”</p>
<p>Ilana Mercer is a writer and former resident of South Africa who knows all too well about Mandela and his legacy.  One of her books, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Into-Cannibals-Pot-Lessons-Post-Apartheid/dp/0984907017">Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa</a>, </i>includes a chapter chock full of interesting, but inconvenient, facts regarding the man who is now being lauded as never before.</p>
<p>Mercer informs us that long before apartheid came crumbling down, the government of South Africa offered to release Mandela from jail as long as he promised to renounce violence.  Mandela, though, “refused to do any such thing [.]”  Mercer adds that Mandela’s “TV smile has won out over his political philosophy, founded as it is on energetic income redistribution in the neo-Marxist tradition, on ‘land reform’ in the same tradition, and on ethnic animosity toward the Afrikaner.”</p>
<p>In 1992, two years <i>after </i>Mandela was set free, he was videoed at an event surrounded by members of the South African Communist Party, his own African National Congress (ANC), and “the ANC’s terrorist arm, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), which Mandela led.”  Courtesy of YouTube, all with eyes to see could now witness “Mandela’s fist…clenched in a black power salute” as the members of MK sang their anthem, a little song according to which they reaffirm their pledge to “‘kill them—kill the whites.’”</p>
<p>Mandela remained a socialist to the last, Mercer assures us, even though he cleverly—but transparently—“rebranded” it. Mandela’s was a <i>racial </i>socialism, a point established beyond doubt by the remarks he made in 1997.  Mercer quotes Mandela insisting that “the future of humanity” cannot be “surrendered to the so-called free market, with government denied the right to intervene [.]”  Mandela also declared the need for the “ownership and management” of the South African economy to reflect “the racial composition of our society” and criticized “the…capitalist system” in South Africa for elevating to “the highest pedestal the promotion of the material interests of the white minority.”</p>
<p>For the conceit of those Westerners who assume that Mandela’s thought is a justified response to the evils of apartheid, Mercer has just the treatment. She reminds us that Mandela and his ANC “had never concealed that they were as tight as thieves with communist and terrorist regimes—Castro, Gaddafi, Arafat, North Korea and Iran’s cankered Khameneis.”  Mercer further reminds us that in addition to once cheering, “‘Long live Comrade Fidel Castro!’” Mandela referred to Gaddafi as “‘my brother leader” and Arafat as “‘a comrade in arms.’”</p>
<p>Moreover, though awarded by President George W. Bush in 2003 with the Medal of Freedom Award, Mercer observes that Mandela couldn’t resist issuing the harshest of indictments against America.  “‘If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world,’” Mandela said, “’it is the United States of America.’” He added that “‘they,” meaning Americans, presumably, “don’t like human beings.’”</p>
<p>And what is Mandela’s legacy to his native South Africa?  It is the purpose of Mercer’s book to show that it is nothing to write home about.  “Since he [Mandela] came to power in 1994, approximately 300,000 people have been murdered.”  “Bit by barbaric bit,” she writes, “South Africa is being dismantled by official racial socialism, obscene levels of crime—organized and disorganized—AIDS, corruption, and an accreting kleptocracy.”</p>
<p>Mercer’s book is a rarity inasmuch as it supplies us with a brutally frank account of the real South Africa that Nelson Mandela helped to bequeath to the world. While the rest of the world is busy singing hosannas to Mandela over the next few days, those of us who are interested in truth would be well served to visit it.</p>
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		<title>Caveat on Nelson Mandela</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the Stalinist regime Mandela adored.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Castro.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212669" alt="Castro" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Castro-450x290.jpg" width="315" height="203" /></a>A Martian visiting earth this week, coasting TV channels and perusing papers, would <i>have</i> to conclude that among the items that most interest this planet’s news bureaus is the plight of former political prisoners, especially black ones.</p>
<p>Well, many Cubans (many of them black) suffered longer and more horrible incarceration in Castro’s KGB-designed dungeons than Nelson Mandela spent in South Africa’s (relatively) comfortable prisons, which were open to inspection by the Red Cross. Castro has never allowed a Red Cross delegation anywhere near his real prisons. Now let’s see if you recognize some of the Cuban ex-prisoners and torture-victims:</p>
<p>Mario Chanes (30 years), Ignacio Cuesta Valle, (29 years) Antonio López Muñoz, (28 years) in Dasio Hernández Peña (28 years) Dr. Alberto Fibla (28 years) Pastor Macurán (28 years) Roberto Martin Perez (28 years) Roberto Perdomo (28 years) Teodoro González (28 years.) Jose L.Pujals (27 years) Miguel A. Alvarez Cardentey (27 years.) Eusebio Penalver (28 years.)</p>
<p>No? None of these names ring a bell? And yet their suffering took place only 90 miles from U.S. shores in a locale absolutely lousy with international press bureaus and their intrepid “investigative reporters.” From CNN to NBC, from Reuters to the AP, from ABC to NPR to CBS, Castro welcomes all of these to “embed” and “report” from his fiefdom.</p>
<p>This fiefdom, by the way, is responsible for the jailing and torture of the most political prisoners (many black) per-capita of any regime in the modern history of the Western hemisphere, more in fact than Stalin’s at the height of the Great Terror. But the Martian would only learn that it provides free and fabulous healthcare and is subject to a “cruel” and “archaic” embargo by a superpower.</p>
<p>Here are some choice Mandela-isms:</p>
<p>&#8220;Che Guevara is an inspiration for every human being who loves freedom.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The cause of Communism is the greatest cause in the history of mankind!&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s one place where (Fidel Castro’s) Cuba stands out head and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">shoulders above the rest – that is in its love for human rights and liberty!&#8221;</a><b></b></p>
<p>Here are a few items the Martian would probably never learn regarding Nelson Mandela or the Stalinist regime he adored:</p>
<p>South Africa&#8217;s apartheid regime was no model of liberty. But even its most violent enemies enjoyed a bona fide day in court under a judge who was not beholden to a dictator for his job (or his life.) When Nelson Mandela was convicted of &#8220;193 counts of terrorism committed between 1961 and 1963, including the preparation, manufacture and use of explosives, including 210,000 hand grenades, 48,000 anti-personnel mines, 1,500 time devices, 144 tons of ammonium nitrate,&#8221; his trial had observers from around the free world. &#8220;The trial has been properly conducted,&#8221; wrote Anthony Sampson, correspondent for the liberal London Observer. &#8220;The judge, Mr Justice Quartus de Wet, has been scrupulously fair.&#8221; Sampson admitted this though his own sympathies veered strongly towards Mandela. (Indeed, Sampson went on to write Nelson Mandela&#8217;s <em>authorized</em> biography.)</p>
<p>In sharp contrast, when Ruby Hart Phillips, the Havana correspondent for the flamingly Castrophile New York Times, attended a mass-trial of accused Castro-regime enemies, she gaped in horror. &#8220;The defense attorney made absolutely no defense, instead he apologized to the court for defending the prisoners,&#8221; she wrote in February 1959. &#8220;The whole procedure was sickening.&#8221; The defendants were all murdered by firing squad the following dawn.</p>
<p>In 1961 a Castro regime prosecutor named Idelfonso Canales explained Cuba&#8217;s new system to a stupefied &#8220;defendant,&#8221; named Rivero Caro who was himself a practicing lawyer in pre-Castro Cuba. &#8220;Forget your lawyer mentality,&#8221; laughed Canales. &#8220;What you say doesn&#8217;t matter. What proof you provide doesn&#8217;t matter, even what the prosecuting attorney says doesn&#8217;t matter. The only thing that matters is what the G-2 (military police) says!&#8221;</p>
<p>A reminder:</p>
<p>According to Anti-Apartheid activists a grand total of 3,000 political prisoners passed through South Africa’s Robben Island prison in roughly 30 years under the Apartheid regime, (all after trials similar to the one described above by Anthony Sampson.) Usually about a thousand were held. These were out of a South African population of 40 million. Here&#8217;s what Mandela&#8217;s <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/07/27/un-declares-nelson-mandela-day-never-mind-those-all-cubans-who-suffered-much-ghastlier-tortures-for-far-longer-at-the-hands-of-mandelas-chum/">&#8220;jail cell&#8221; looked like towards the end of his sentence. </a></p>
<p>&#8220;N**ger!&#8221; taunted my jailers between tortures. “recalled Castro’s prisoner Eusebio Penalver to this writer. “We pulled you down from the trees and cut off your tail!&#8221;  they laughed at me. “For months I was naked in a 6 x 4 foot cell That’s 4 feet high, so you couldn’t stand. But they never succeeded in branding me as common criminal, so I felt a great freedom inside myself. I refused to commit spiritual suicide,<b>” </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">continued the late Mr Penalver.</a></p>
<p>According to the Human Rights group, Freedom House, a grand total of 500,000 political prisoners have passed through Castro’s various prisons and forced labor camps (many after trails like the one described by R.H Phillips above, others with none whatsoever.) At one time in 1961, some 300,000 Cubans were jailed for political offenses (in torture chambers and forced-labor camps designed by Stalin&#8217;s disciples, not like Mandela&#8217;s as seen above.) This was out of a Cuban population in 1960 of 6.4 million.</p>
<p>So who did the world embargo for &#8220;injustice?&#8221; and &#8220;human-rights abuses?&#8221; (Apartheid South Africa, of course)  And who currently sits on the UN’s Human Rights Council? (Stalinist Cuba.)</p>
<p>In brief, none of the craziness Alice found after tumbling down that rabbit hole comes close to the craziness Cuba-watchers read and see almost daily.</p>
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		<title>UK Sandwich Shop Owner Arrested for Mandela Joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 'My PC takes so long to shut down I’ve decided to call it Nelson Mandela.']]></description>
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<p><a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/2013/12/uk-shopkeeper-arrested-for-making-jokes.html">Who says there are no</a> more blasphemy laws anymore? Make a joke about a secular saint and you&#8217;ll be getting DNA samples taken faster than you can say &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520662/Neil-Phillips-quizzed-8-HOURS-police-Nelson-Mandela-Twitter-jokes.html">Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela</a>&#8220;.</p>
<blockquote><p>A sandwich shop owner endured eight hours of questioning by police and had his computer seized for three weeks – after making tasteless Nelson Mandela jokes on the internet.</p>
<p>Neil Phillips, who runs Crumbs in Rugeley, Staffordshire, says he was also finger-printed and DNA-swabbed after officers received complaints about what he insists were harmless gags.</p>
<p>In one online post, the 44-year-old wrote: &#8216;My PC takes so long to shut down I’ve decided to call it Nelson Mandela.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8216;When they took my computer, I thought, &#8220;what the hell are they looking for?&#8221; To be questioned would have been over the top, never mind arrested.&#8217;</p>
<p>You can question the taste, but they’re not hateful. I told the police they got plenty of &#8220;likes&#8221;. What happened to freedom of speech?</p></blockquote>
<p>What did happen to freedom of speech? The left happened to it. And it did to freedom of speech what it does to everything else.</p>
<blockquote><p>Liberal Democrat Councillor Tim Jones was so incensed by the one-liners, aired at a time when Mandela was critically ill, that he made an official complaint.</p>
<p>He commented under one tasteless joke: &#8216;Attacking a 94-year-old man who is probably dying. Does the far right have an ounce of human decency?&#8217;</p>
<p>He said: &#8216;They are vile and deeply offensive, anti-Muslim, anti-disabled.&#8217;</p>
<p>Staffordshire Police declined to go into detail about the nature of their interview with Mr Phillips. But a spokesman said: &#8216;We can confirm a man was arrested in Rugeley on September 10.</p>
<p>&#8216;He was bailed pending further enquiries.</p>
<p>&#8216;When he answered bail on September 30, he was informed that there would be no further action based on CPS decision of there being insufficient evidence to support a prosecution.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>Freedom of speech 1. Lib dems 0.</p>
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		<title>The Mandela Myth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And the real South Africa.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/myrr.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212734" alt="myrr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/myrr-450x253.jpg" width="315" height="177" /></a>White liberals are obsessed with Nelson Mandela everywhere outside South Africa.  Black people inside South Africa however are far more blasé about him. In a demographically youthful country where much of the population only came of age once he was out of office, he had already become a part of the vanishing past even before his death.</p>
<p>The generations that lived through Apartheid as adults make up a surprisingly small percentage of the black population. With its high crime rates and high AIDS rates, South Africa has a life expectancy in the fifties. Afghanistan, Sudan and Haiti all have higher life expectancies than South Africa.</p>
<p>There is a reason that many Americans and Europeans remember Mandela’s campaign against Apartheid better than black South Africans do. They are more likely to still be among the living.</p>
<p>To Western whites, Mandela is an iconic figure, a latter-day Gandhi, but to South Africans of all races his memory is entangled with the corrupt infrastructure of the African National Congress and its leaders. Even in office, <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-08-15/news/1997227064_1_president-nelson-mandela-pessimism-south-africa">his approval ratings were shaky</a> among whites and less than perfect among blacks who had their own tribal divisions and conflicts. Out of office he became a convenient symbol for the ANC.</p>
<p>For South Africans, Mandela was a real-life political leader. For the foreigners mourning him as the greatest leader in human history, he existed in some nebulous territory of virtue unrelated to real life political decisions like harboring mafia boss Vito Roberto Palazzolo and favoring his own Xhosa Nostra.</p>
<p>To younger black South Africans, Mandela either occupies the vague space that Martin Luther King does for younger African-Americans, an important figure whom they don’t really identify with or feel made a difference in their lives, or as a sellout who failed to squeeze the white minority for everything they had.</p>
<p>Like Gandhi, Mandela is a more controversial figure inside South Africa than he is outside it. But to many he isn’t even that. In a country torn apart by disease, poverty and crime; he appears far less relevant than he does in Washington or Brussels. Few South Africans want inspiration. Instead they want results.</p>
<p>After leaving office, Mandela blasted his own <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1324909/Mandela-accuses-ANC-of-racism-and-corruption.html">African National Congress</a> accusing it of being “as corrupt as the Apartheid regime” and warning that, “Some Africans have made mistakes. They now throw their weight about as a majority. There are some Africans who inspire fear in the minorities.&#8221;</p>
<p>That began a process that would allow Mandela to detach his reputation from the corrupt sinkhole of the African National Congress. But it is another of the Mandela myths that the ANC became corrupt only after his tenure. The African National Congress was always corrupt. The only difference is that it has become more flamboyantly corrupt now that it has a majority that will always vote for it.</p>
<p>South Africa is for all intents and purposes a one-party state. And it was Mandela who blasted opposition Democratic Party voters <a href="http://www.anc.org.za/elections/1999/news/en051909.html">as white racists</a> who “would one day die with a heavy conscience.” What other outcome of that could there have been except a one-party state and what outcome of a one-party state could there be except the total corruption that we see in South Africa today?</p>
<p>As a Communist, Mandela had always envisioned a one-party state.</p>
<p>“Under a Communist Party Government South Africa will become a land of milk and honey. Political, economic and social rights will cease to be enjoyed by Whites only. They will be shared equally by Whites and Non-Whites. There will be enough land and houses for all. There will be no unemployment, starvation and disease,” Mandela wrote.</p>
<p>Today South Africa <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/30/safrica-unemployment-nears-26/">has a 26 percent</a> unemployment rate and <a href="http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/southafrica_statistics.html">a 17 percent HIV</a> rate. There is no equality. Instead, like all wealth redistribution schemes, inequality has been spread along with resentment and a pervasive feeling of injustice for everyone.</p>
<p>South Africans distrust the judiciary and the police. And they distrust the leaders that they elect. Even without the massive brutal Zimbabwean redistribution schemes that Mandela was smart enough not to endorse, but that many black South Africans continue to demand, much of the white population is thinking about leaving. Nearly a million have already left. And they’re not alone.</p>
<p>The middle class blacks that the hopes of post-Apartheid South Africa depend on are nearly as eager to leave as their white counterparts. And taking their place are illegal immigrants from nearby Zimbabwe.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Third-of-SA-youth-wants-to-emigrate-survey-20121121">Among the 18-34 age group</a>, 56 percent of whites, 53 percent of Indians and 43 percent of those of mixed race want to leave the country. Among blacks the number is only at 33 percent which still means that a third would like to leave.</p>
<p>The South Africa that Mandela leaves behind is a land in search of a people. There is no milk and honey. Instead there is a desperate scramble for a way out of the country by every race and creed able to agree only on wanting to leave. Post-Apartheid South Africa is an experiment that Western liberals love to admire, but that nobody seems to want to actually live in.</p>
<p>“The people of South Africa, led by the S.A.C.P. will destroy capitalist society and build in its place socialism where there will be no exploitation of man by man, and where there will be no rich and poor, no unemployment, starvation, disease and ignorance,” Mandela wrote.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2013/01/30/twelve-million-going-to-bed-hungry-in-sa">Today 77 percent</a> of South African households face food insecurity and <a href="http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/sa-s-shocking-literacy-stats-1.1595411#.UqT2TfSTbJ8">most teachers are not able</a> to teach students how to read independently. The Communist utopia of universal literacy, plenty and equality has not come and isn’t coming.</p>
<p>To many white liberals, Mandela has taken his place in the pantheon alongside Gandhi and the Dalai Lama as a Third World saint who led a resistance based on forgiveness and acceptance. This need for Third World saints that led to a white cult growing around Gandhi and the Dalai Lama has more to do with the decline of spirituality in the West than with the reality of the three political figures who like most leaders understood the value of symbolism when it came to cloaking their more human agendas.</p>
<p>Mandela was neither a monster nor a saint. Instead he occupied a troubled middle ground which saw him employ terrorism and align with unambiguous monsters like Castro and Gaddafi.  The man who preached a utopian creed with a violent edge proved to be a pragmatist. If there is any virtue to take away from his life, it is that when push came to shove, he chose pragmatism over ideology.</p>
<p>Those progressives who worship Mandela as a saint might instead consider that his real lessons were not moral or ethical, but political. And those lessons still weren’t enough to save South Africa.</p>
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		<title>Nelson Mandela, Western Saint</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Mandela's life told us about Western civilization.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lek.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212740" alt="lek" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/lek-450x298.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>The passing of Nelson Mandela has been attended with the usual global encomia we have come to expect from those political leaders who have become international celebrities. Sometimes these extravagant praises and out-sized mourning surpass any real achievement. It is hard to find any justification in Princess Diana’s life for the hyperbolic praise and hysteria that saturated her funeral rites. Many another “leader of his people” or “liberator” has after his death been bestowed with dubious qualities and achievements, while his crimes and flaws are airbrushed from the narrative. That’s why George Orwell famously counseled, “Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”</p>
<p>Future historians may temper the current exalted judgment of Mandela, and there is much to remember as the world rushes to beatify him. His endorsement of communists and support for terrorists he made part of the struggle against apartheid should not be forgotten. Nor should be the victims of machete attacks and  “necklacing,” the gruesome practice of putting around the victim’s neck a tire filled with gasoline and then igniting it, This form of lynching was a favorite of the African National Congress, of which Mandela was a member.</p>
<p>But after spending 27 years in prison, Mandela recognized on his release in 1990 the pragmatic reality that the dismantling of apartheid and the inclusion of the black majority in governing South Africa meant that the revolutionary justice of the sort that has ruined Zimbabwe, and the command economy beloved by Marxists, both were the road to just another form of injustice and ultimately failure. Yes, on his release he proclaimed that “we have no option but to continue” the armed struggle, but what he <i>did</i> was negotiate with South African president F.W. de Klerk to achieve a relatively orderly and peaceful transition to black political participation.</p>
<p>Upon becoming president in 1994, Mandela also avoided the actions that could have plunged South Africa into violent civil war, and the economic disintegration that would have followed the imposition of a bankrupt socialist ideology that has devastated so many African nations. He championed “truth and reconciliation” instead of payback, and economic growth rather than dirigiste snake oil, instead selling off some government-owned industries. He eschewed petty symbolic changes that would have divided black and white South Africans rather than unite them. Thus he refused demands to change the name of the national soccer team, considered by many blacks a token of apartheid, and instead supported the team as a symbol of national unity. His generous persona pacified anxious whites and earned his government international prestige.</p>
<p>As the National Review has pointed out, however, once he became president Mandela seemingly kept his affection for the communist tyrants and other leftist autocrats who had supported him not on principle, but as a Cold War stick with which to beat the free West. He did the global tyrant circuit, visiting Fidel Castro and other thugs, and giving them outrageous moral support that ignored their crimes and their much more brutal prisons than the one in which he had been imprisoned. As National Review <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/365671/nelson-mandela-rip-editors">writes</a>, “He used his moral authority to buttress the prisoners’ jailers and torturers. He praised Qaddafi’s ‘commitment to the fight for peace and human rights in the world.’ (One of Mandela’s grandsons, incidentally, was named for Qaddafi.) Of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, he said, ‘There’s one thing where that country stands out head and shoulders above the rest. That is in its love for human rights and liberty.’” And he indulged the uncritical, crude anti-Americanism that is the rosary of the international left, saying of the United States, “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.”</p>
<p>There is, however, more significance to Mandela’s life than the achievements noted by his encomiasts, or even his flaws. Like Gandhi before him, Mandela was a creation of the West. He was trained in the Western-modeled universities of Fort Hare, which was created for black Africans, and the University of Witwatersrand, which admitted some black students even under apartheid. He was influenced by anti-colonial and Marxist ideology, the origins of which lay not in tribal culture but in European civilization. He also had available the uniquely Western liberal-democratic ideals such as equality, human rights, non-violence, anti-racism, and democracy, precious little of which can be found elsewhere in Africa. His efforts against the nuclear-armed South African apartheid regime were ultimately successful because they were directed against a Western civilization that could be appealed to on the basis of those ideals and that would be reluctant to use massive violence. And this appeal created sympathetic supporters both in white South Africa and across the world, who made the cause of black South Africans their own and provided material and moral support.</p>
<p>Indeed, Mandela could not have succeeded against any other than a liberal-democratic Western country. His efforts would in the end have been as futile as Gandhi’s silly 1939 letter to Adolph Hitler, which begged for peace from the dictator who counseled England’s Lord Halifax, “Kill Gandhi, if that isn&#8217;t enough then kill the other leaders too, if that isn&#8217;t enough then two hundred more activists, and so on until the Indian people will give up the hope of independence.” What Mandela’s career demonstrates is the power of Western ideals which, despite the universal evils of human nature that have tarnished Western history, could transcend those brutal constants of history and effect change on the basis of principle rather than violence. From this perspective, Mandela represents the intellectual incoherence of anti-Western multiculturalism, which uses Western ideals like anti-colonialism and anti-racism to demonize the West, and ignores the unique principles of the West without which a Mandela or a Gandhi would have ended up forgotten failures.</p>
<p>Second, for all its brutality and injustice, in the scale of continuing global oppression and violence apartheid was not the monumental and unique evil into which Western liberal intellectuals and leftists carrying water for communist regimes made it. It’s curious that many black Africans illegally immigrated <i>into </i>an<i> </i>apartheid South Africa supposedly akin to Nazi Germany. Without that publicizing of apartheid in the West, Mandela’s efforts would have fallen on deaf ears. Just look at the relative indifference to the massive slaughters in Rwanda and the Congolese civil war, the oppression of Uighurs and Tibetans by the Chinese, the millions massacred in Sudan, or the mainstream media’s blackout of the on-going genocide of Christians in the Muslim Middle East. All that suffering, rape, torture, plunder, and murder do not gratify the endemic self-loathing of leftist Westerners that made apartheid a crime against humanity on a par with Nazism. Thus those other instances of violence are not elevated into a global cause demanding divestment, boycotts, and international shunning. No doubt many Westerners were sincerely moved by the injustice of racialist exclusion, but why haven’t we seen an equally intense reaction to the other, in many cases much worse, examples of oppression and violence?</p>
<p>Nelson Mandela’s achievements deserve recognition. We can even accept that the darker shadows of his portrait will be ignored. But we should acknowledge that his life is a testimony not just to his own character and deeds, but to the unique goods of Western civilization that made Mandela and his achievements possible.</p>
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		<title>South Africa in the Shadows</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nelson.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212525" alt="nelson" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/nelson.jpg" width="319" height="179" /></a>“People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them,” James Baldwin wrote. Few men have had as much history trapped in them as Nelson Mandela.</p>
<p>To those outside South Africa, the country has been reduced to Nelson Mandela just as it was once reduced to apartheid. Mandela was the ending to a story that everyone thought they knew. With his death, the story comes perilously close to losing its meaning.</p>
<p>The history trapped in Mandela escapes with his death forcing both those inside South Africa and those outside it to come to terms with all the complex realities of history packed away into one man’s life.</p>
<p>Like Gandhi, Mandela became an iconic figure who appeared to encompass the moral of his own story. The fictional Nelson Mandela has appeared in dozens of movies. He has been played by everyone from Danny Glover to Sidney Poitier to Morgan Freeman. And each of those movies has made the real man and the real South Africa that he leaves behind in death seem that much more unreal.</p>
<p>Western liberals like simplistic stories and Mandela was their happy ending. His very existence freed them from the need to learn anything more about what happened after apartheid. By knowing him, they knew, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story. Mandela freed them from knowing history.</p>
<p>Everyone knows the history of South Africa and no one knows it. The dynamics of a troubled past that were reduced to a happy ending built around one man are still playing out in South Africa. Even as the mourning for Mandela goes on, <a href="http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Child-raped-every-3-min-report-20090603">one child is raped every three minutes in South Africa</a> and <a href="http://bulawayo24.com/index-id-news-sc-africa-byo-37564.html">three children are murdered</a> every day.</p>
<p>If there is anything that the world ought to mourn, not only today, but every day, it is a horrifying reality in which a South African woman <a href="http://www.ngopulse.org/press-release/women-born-south-africa-have-more-chance-being-raped-learning-how-read-rapecoza">is more likely to be raped than to learn</a> to read, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/south-africa-rape-survey">a quarter of the men admit</a> <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/jun/17/south-africa-rape-survey">to</a> having raped and men with AIDS believe that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/1362134/South-African-men-rape-babies-as-cure-for-Aids.html">they can find a cure by raping a baby</a>.</p>
<p>Troubling facts like these defy the easy inspiration of the happy ending. They remind us that history does not stop the way that a film script does. There is no moment when the crowd cheers, the camera pans up and the audience is free to leave the theater and look no further because the story has ended.</p>
<p>South Africa’s story did not end with apartheid. It does not end with Mandela’s death. South Africa remains in twilight. The credits do not roll. The happy ending has not come.</p>
<p>The Mandela era gave way to the Mbeki era and the Zuma era. Mbeki had been trained in the USSR and Zuma, like Mandela, had been a member of the Communist Party. Their rule was characterized not only by corruption and violence, but by the denial that the corruption and violence existed. Mbeki claimed that HIV was not linked to AIDS and that those pointing out the escalating crime rate were white racists. Zuma has said that the child rapes are “inexplicable”; but had been put on trial for raping an HIV-positive AIDS activist while claiming an equally magical way of preventing the disease.</p>
<p>Just as Mbeki’s successor was worse than him so too Zuma’s successor is likely to be worse than his predecessor. The difference between South Africa and Zimbabwe is only one of degree. And to prove that very point, Zuma has praised Zimbabwe’s Mugabe calling him a fellow freedom fighter.</p>
<p>In his address to the nation, Zuma said that, “What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves. And in him we saw so much of ourselves.”</p>
<p>There is certainly some truth to that. But it is not a truth about Nelson Mandela. It is a truth about people who are caught up in chaos and searching for something to believe in. Zuma said that South Africans, “mourn the loss of the one person who, more than any other, came to embody their sense of a common nationhood.” But the unpleasant truth is that there is no more South African nationhood.</p>
<p>The more liberals wanted South Africa to escape from its own history, the more it became trapped in real problems with no easy solutions.</p>
<p>South Africa is just as divided by race as it was when Mandela was in prison. It is broken up into countless tiny factions protected by real and metaphorical violence. There is no trusted institution in the country that unites it. There is no trust by South Africans in each other.</p>
<p>When a farmer’s family is brutally murdered by his own workers and men rape the children of their neighbors in the hopes of curing themselves of AIDS—there can be no such thing as trust. The story told in so many of the movies where Mandela played by Sidney Poitier or Morgan Freeman teaches blacks and whites to set aside their hatred has not worked out nearly as well in real life.</p>
<p>In the new apartheid, the black government represses a white minority and abuses its power over the black majority in ways that Western liberals would never tolerate if it were being practiced by men with Dutch last names. Every government crime is covered up by more incitement against the white minority with each generation of activists struggling to outdo the previous generation in its anti-white racism.</p>
<p>There has been no moment of transcendence that endured. No cure for the things tearing the nation apart. There is no new spirit in South Africa. There is a new apartheid defined not by law, but by hate. Freedom and democracy are equally vaporous under the rule of a political movement obsessed with the vicious pragmatism of power now being exercised by Mandela’s African National Congress successors.</p>
<p>“People pay for what they do and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become,” Baldwin wrote. “And they pay for it very simply by the lives they lead.” There is no place where that is quite as true as in post-apartheid South Africa where the violence unleashed still haunts the townships.</p>
<p>In working nations, the death of a Mandela would create a symbol. In South Africa, it removes one of the few fragile symbols whose meaning is as disputed as everything else about the post-apartheid era.</p>
<p>For Western liberals, Mandela’s death provides them with permission to stop caring about South Africa. Having reduced South Africa to Mandela, his death permanently removes its existence from their minds. They may show up to the theater if Denzel Washington or Jamie Foxx decide to play Nelson Mandela. Otherwise they will comfortably banish the entire country to the dusty attic of forgotten history.</p>
<p>Meanwhile one child is raped every three minutes and three children are murdered every day.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[US President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, uncomfortably acknowledging his role as a leader at war while insisting that conflict can be morally justified.Obama&#8217;s elevation to a pantheon of winners alongside the likes of Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King before he has even spent a year in office [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>US President Barack Obama on Thursday accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, uncomfortably acknowledging his role as a leader at war while insisting that conflict can be morally justified.Obama&#8217;s elevation to a pantheon of winners alongside the likes of Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King before he has even spent a year in office has sparked international debate.Obama said he received the award with &#8220;great humility&#8221;. &#8220;Compared to some of the giants of history who have received this prize &#8212; Schweitzer and King; Marshall and Mandela &#8212; my accomplishments are slight&#8221;.The US president, who like other winners will get a diploma, a medal and 10 million krona 1.4 million dollars, dwelled at length on his responsibility fighting conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he has just sent 30,000 extra troops.&#8221;War is sometimes necessary, and war is at some level an expression of human feelings.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hsRTjp5058mjPgUFdT0dcdIwtOeA">AFP: Obama defends war at Nobel Peace Prize ceremony</a>.</p>
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