Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site SCIRTP.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!SCIRTP!scott From: scott@SCIRTP.UUCP (Scott Crenshaw) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: We're next Message-ID: <322@SCIRTP.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 15:41:16 EDT Article-I.D.: SCIRTP.322 Posted: Thu Aug 15 15:41:16 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 04:07:50 EDT References: <3593@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: SCI Systems, Research Triangle Park, NC Lines: 35 > > The US had a trusted allie in South Africa, one of the last bastions of anti- > communism. Now we're giving them the blade in the back. "Et tu, Brute? Then > fall South Africa!" > > But South Africa's demise was inevitable. The Kremlin decreed that South > Africa was one of two jewels that must fall to Internationalist Communism. > And so it will fall. For the next year we'll have to watch the bloodbath on > NBC Nightly News. And we'll have a flood of white South African refugees > heading for our shores. I can see the scenario as they arrive. "You're not > Black or Asian, and we don't consider the African National Congress an > oppressive government. Therefore, you cannot stay. Back on the boats, you > pro-Nazi swine!" We don't have to lose a trusted "allie". Not if we're smart. If we admit our mistake and come out with whole-hearted support for the blacks in South Africa , we have a good chance of remaining on friendly terms with them . If we don't , can you blame them for turning to the Soviets ? "Sure,", we'll tell them, "we supported the regime that denied you basic human liberties. Sure, we were one of the few friends that the ruling minority of your country had in the world . And sure, we stood by and watched while you were murdered because you decided not to take it lying down. "But ," we'll say , "we want to be your friends now that you're in power. After all, all's well that ends well." Sure. But do we really want to do this ? After all, don't we want what South Africa has ? A government of the minority . By the minority. For the minority. But the color of the minority is reversed here in the good ol' US of A . Hmm. Then the new government of South Africa will also get a chance to show its principles. Hmmm. -- (Scott Crenshaw @ SCI Systems , Inc.) {akgua,decvax}!mcnc!rti-sel!scirtp!scott The views expressed are my own, not necessaraly those of SCI Systems, Inc, nor Monty Python.