Lugar: "It's over"
When Lugar speaks the other GOP Senators listen. I personally cannot stand the man. To me he has always looked like a grinning fool. Ever since he spearheaded the Senate sanctions against South Africa in 1984 (going so far as to suck up to Jesse Jackson in the process) I have despised Lugar.
Reagan's "constructive engagement" with South Africa and his resolute detestation of communism was already allaying the fears of change among white South Africans when Lugar had to poke his nose in. He is an insincere man given to sucking up.
White South Africans' greatest fear at that time was of being overwhelmed by a partially civilized communist-controlled black majority. The communist threat was very real to white South Africans whose sons were dying in Namibia and Angola fighting Russian-financed Cuban troops.
White South Africans (with Reagan's guidance) were making significant and sincere changes in their attitudes and their laws. I was visiting my family there at that time and was amazed and pleased at how much had changed in the five years that I had been away. Effectively - culturally, socially and legally - apartheid had ceased to exist. Partial franchise had already been conceded and I met one of the black members of Parliament. The only hurdle remaining to leap was universal franchise - the biggest fear of the minority whites outnumbered by communist-inclined blacks by ten to one.
These fears were not unfounded. Communist Cuban soldiers continued killing the sons of white South Africans in southwest Africa and at home there were riots so violent as to lead to deaths and vicious black schoolkids were "necklacing" black policemen at the urging of the seemingly insane Winnie Mandela and her communist cohorts in Berkeley.
At that moment the grinning fool, Lugar, stepped forward and stood beside Jesse Jackson to pronounce white South Africans "evil racists."
[BTW - just in case you don't know what "necklacing" is: black school-kids - average age ten - would stone a black policeman or anyone that they deemed a "traitor to the cause" to exhaustion and submission and then place a tire around his/her neck, douse it with gasoline and set it on fire. It is an excruciatingly painful and horrendously humiliating death. Fortunately many black South Africans are Christians or it would have been worse because pre-Christian animist Africans are even more barbaric than Arabs and we know how barbaric Muslims are. Oops - did I just call a spade a spade? Sorry to be so un-PC.]
Well, Lugar more than makes up in phony PCness to let me off the hook. It was the behavior of the Jesse Jackson sucker-uppers who completely put me off the socalled "liberals" in the USA. I saw clearly that the "liberals" were hypocritical, insincere, superficial poseurs. And I lumped Lugar in with that bunch of silly, shallow sheep.
But, sadly, Lugar's condemnation of South Africa was heard and heeded by many Congressional Republicans and they followed his lead instead of Reagan's and now we are stuck with a South Africa ruled by Marxist/John Lennonists even more phony, corrupt, stupid and infantile than those who run Berkeley.
Yep, I have hunch that Lugar's just announced the end of the battle on one front - Iraq. I'm older than I was when Lugar insincerely and opportunistically jumped on the Jesse Jackson band-wagon over twenty years ago and can now concede that Lugar is simply conveying what his constituents think. Americans were uninformed and wrong about South Africa and are probably uninformed and wrong about Iraq but the fact is that a majority support for the war in Iraq is over.
Reagan's "constructive engagement" with South Africa and his resolute detestation of communism was already allaying the fears of change among white South Africans when Lugar had to poke his nose in. He is an insincere man given to sucking up.
White South Africans' greatest fear at that time was of being overwhelmed by a partially civilized communist-controlled black majority. The communist threat was very real to white South Africans whose sons were dying in Namibia and Angola fighting Russian-financed Cuban troops.
White South Africans (with Reagan's guidance) were making significant and sincere changes in their attitudes and their laws. I was visiting my family there at that time and was amazed and pleased at how much had changed in the five years that I had been away. Effectively - culturally, socially and legally - apartheid had ceased to exist. Partial franchise had already been conceded and I met one of the black members of Parliament. The only hurdle remaining to leap was universal franchise - the biggest fear of the minority whites outnumbered by communist-inclined blacks by ten to one.
These fears were not unfounded. Communist Cuban soldiers continued killing the sons of white South Africans in southwest Africa and at home there were riots so violent as to lead to deaths and vicious black schoolkids were "necklacing" black policemen at the urging of the seemingly insane Winnie Mandela and her communist cohorts in Berkeley.
At that moment the grinning fool, Lugar, stepped forward and stood beside Jesse Jackson to pronounce white South Africans "evil racists."
[BTW - just in case you don't know what "necklacing" is: black school-kids - average age ten - would stone a black policeman or anyone that they deemed a "traitor to the cause" to exhaustion and submission and then place a tire around his/her neck, douse it with gasoline and set it on fire. It is an excruciatingly painful and horrendously humiliating death. Fortunately many black South Africans are Christians or it would have been worse because pre-Christian animist Africans are even more barbaric than Arabs and we know how barbaric Muslims are. Oops - did I just call a spade a spade? Sorry to be so un-PC.]
Well, Lugar more than makes up in phony PCness to let me off the hook. It was the behavior of the Jesse Jackson sucker-uppers who completely put me off the socalled "liberals" in the USA. I saw clearly that the "liberals" were hypocritical, insincere, superficial poseurs. And I lumped Lugar in with that bunch of silly, shallow sheep.
But, sadly, Lugar's condemnation of South Africa was heard and heeded by many Congressional Republicans and they followed his lead instead of Reagan's and now we are stuck with a South Africa ruled by Marxist/John Lennonists even more phony, corrupt, stupid and infantile than those who run Berkeley.
Yep, I have hunch that Lugar's just announced the end of the battle on one front - Iraq. I'm older than I was when Lugar insincerely and opportunistically jumped on the Jesse Jackson band-wagon over twenty years ago and can now concede that Lugar is simply conveying what his constituents think. Americans were uninformed and wrong about South Africa and are probably uninformed and wrong about Iraq but the fact is that a majority support for the war in Iraq is over.
posted by Joubert at 12:02 AM
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